"Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours."

“I never looked at a title and said, I want that.”

Source : "THR's Women in Entertainment 2012: Power 100". www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 05, 2015.

“I find that deep breathing and meditation help me handle practically any situation.”

Source : "Daft Punk Bassist Nathan East: Music is His Mission". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village”

Source : "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.

“For any healthy relationship to work you have to be able have that time to spend with your friends. And to have a healthy relationship with your friends - and to be honest, if they "know you", pardon the pun, then they'll understand that you need to spend time with your partner. If people are pulling at you from both sides then maybe there's something a little off balance within the relationship. But it also depends on how you are as a person. You need to set the guidelines quite clearly, and say "I need my friends im my life. I got with you, but my friends are part of me also".”

Source : Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

“This is an embarrassment of riches, and boy, am I happy to be embarrassed.”

“The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.”

“One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.”

“No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.”

Source : George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics