You plan and plan and plan then Africa happens

I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'

A budding fashionista even at four, I would capture the little lizards and latch them, still living, onto my earlobes as earrings. Most girls wouldn't touch them, I thought they completed the outfit.

Failure is impossible.

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Children hold us hostage; they represent our commitment to the future.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge of what energy is

I feel very fortunate to have my ears. I'd share them with everybody but I only have two to go around.