"I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered."

“I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.”

“I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.”

“You never get every job you want.”

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

“Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.”

“Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.”

Source : "An Interview With Kathryn Lasky About Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

“The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.”

“The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.”

“And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.”

Source : James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.140, Hachette UK