"My art takes birth when my loneliness becomes my companion... when I take lives and deaths much personally and work when others play. When I meet myself and find that the truth of life is not the dream of tender age ... but the fire within me that creates the work of art."

“All the scientist creates in a fact is the language in which he enunciates it. If he predicts a fact, he will employ this language, and for all those who can speak and understand it, his prediction is free from ambiguity. Moreover, this prediction once made, it evidently does not depend upon him whether it is fulfilled or not.”

“Where I come from, you had to be original. You had to come up with your own little moves. It doesn't matter if it's a big move. It had to be a dope original concept.”

“I'm on Facebook and Twitter, and occasionally I will tweet something. Somehow my problem is that I don't think I have anything interesting to tweet about.”

“If you never bluff, you'll rarely get called. If you bluff all the time, you'll always get called.”

“I would give a lot to actually be able to glamour China into not wanting ivory. I can't even tell you how much I would give to be able to stop the illicit trade of Africa's wildlife, and to just look into the president of China's eyes and say, "You don't want this anymore, your country doesn't want this anymore," and have it be done. That would be great.”

“To respond is positive, to react is negative.”

“I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Books crowbar the world open for you.”

Source : Katherine Rundell (2013). “Rooftoppers”, p.34, Simon and Schuster