"It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa."

“Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.”

“Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe.”

“The childbearing year is a thirteen month year: the two months before conception, the nine months of pregnancy, and the two months following the birth. The childbearing is a time of adjustments and fierce emotions. The childbearing year touches every season.”

“When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.”

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

“Do not lose the treasure of your Self for the pleasure of the senses.”

“I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.”

“I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings.”

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

“Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.”

Source : "Carla Bruni's revealing interview before she married President Nicolas Sarkozy" by Graham Brough, www.mirror.co.uk. March 29, 2008.