"You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life."

“Man's freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man's enslavement of man.”

Source : "The Green Book". Book by Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1975.

“That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.”

“. . . a pity I never had children. But you're wrong. . . . I have . . . thousands of them . . . thousands of them . . . and all boys!”

“As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.”

Source : Robert G. Allen (2006). “Creating Wealth: Retire in Ten Years Using Allen's Seven Principles of Wealth”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

“There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.”

“I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.”

“Finally, I owe a debt to all the writers who've worked in the Star Wars universe to date - and to the millions of readers who've supported their works. The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single timeline, but they will always matter.”

“We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.”

Source : "Obama's CIA Pick Has Confirmation Hearings". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. February 5, 2009.