"I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that."

“I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.”

Source : "5 Juicy Questions For…Zac Efron" by Naomi Piercey, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 3, 2012.

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

“Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.”

“I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“(I've learned) how important it is to really evaluate your own life...to pay attention to what's going on in your own head, and to know that this is (your) life...and make conscious decisions about how you want to live it.”

“Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.”

Source : Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

“The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.”

“Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.”