"Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now."

“Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.”

“I'm pretty good with not being afraid to just go up to people and introduce myself.”

Source : "Elle Fanning Spills Her Biggest Fashion Risk!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. December 29, 2011.

“I mean I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. But when you grit your teeth and stick it out until dawn!”

“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.”

“Happiness is always a coincidence.”

“In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.”

Source : Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Innovations that drive lasting economic growth emerge from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology.”

Source : "President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors". Susan Hockfield's keynote address at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Salt Lake City, news.mit.edu. July 15, 2011.

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”