"For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridiculing and mocking and chopping up and rearranging a giant corporation that intrudes on my life whether I want it to or not every day... The idea that I have to be afraid to do that is absurd to me."

“When you choose to perceive Love over fear, life begins to flow.”

“For the scientific acquisition of knowledge is almost as tedious as the routine acquisition of wealth.”

“I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!”

Source : "Katie Cassidy's Most Confident Moments" by Jamie Primeau, www.seventeen.com. February 27, 2013.

“We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.”

“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”

“The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

“I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.”

“In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.”