"It was quite tough, not many opportunities. I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future.""

“An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.”

Source : Susan Wiggs (2012). “Summer by the Sea”, p.176, Harlequin

“Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.”

“A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.”

“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”

“Very often the people who are shooting your film do not look like you if your film is brown-centric in some way. What is very interesting is to be going through these scenarios and turning around and looking at so many faces that are not yours. Even though those faces are looking at you in love, it puts you in a space when you are on a plantation in that condition. I think that it allows you to see further into possibly what that place really was for someone else, except thank God we're with people who love and respect us.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“Body does what mind prefers.”

“Don't use hands to do things that can be efficiently done by the computer.”

“Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.”