What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.

The forces of freedom and choice will always triumph against the forces of conformity and control.

Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.

This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped himself with spacious ease. He was his own call to prayer.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

Sometimes expecting too much lands you nowhere in life..

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.