"Get smart and nothing can touch you."

“The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become”

“What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Louis Judd". "Cat People", www.imdb.com. 1942.

“But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.”

“If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.”

“I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.”

Source : "Search Rings SEARCH China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

“Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.”

“I am the history of the rejection of who I am”

“I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.”

Source : Source: deadline.com