"They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter."

“Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?”

“If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.”

“There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.”

“The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.”

“I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

Source : Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

“The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.”

Source : "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

“I've always looked at myself and criticized myself first, and that's the way I'm always going to be.”