"I invest in people. I think: people first, projects second."

“Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.”

“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”

“Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without...”

“Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has thoughtfully provided us with a universe in which radiant energy of almost all wave lengths travels in straight lines over enormous distances with usually rather negligible absorption.”

“We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?”

“When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the first week and got acclimated to Central America. I loved it.”

Source : "New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.

“At a time when our moral standing in the world has been weakened by a rubber stamp Justice Department that placed the Bush Administration above the law, we now need someone who is objective and independent. And, make no mistake, Eric Holder is independent.”

“If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.”