"We allow no geniuses around our Studio."

“The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.”

“Live simply and without thinking too much, like a child with his father. Faith without too much thinking works wonders. The logical mind hinders the Grace of God and miracles. Practice patience without judging with the logical mind.”

“The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.”

Source : Greg Palast (2003). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-finance Fraudsters”, Constable & Robinson

“The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.”

Source : "Vanessa Williams reflects on motherhood, struggle and stardom". Interview with Ashley Strickland, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2012.

“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”

“Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.”

“I needed to grow up and do things all adults do. It was time to stop having everything spoon fed to me. It was about being independent.”

“She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.”