I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

When I was 12, I read about Iqbal Masih, a child slave who escaped the carpet factory where he'd been chained to a loom since the age of four. Iqbal led an anti-child labor crusade that made global headlines, including the one that first caught my attention.

Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

It's addicting, beating the heck out of people and eating hot dogs and making people smile. I do feel like garbage afterwards, but so what? Most people feel like garbage after a long day of work.

I think for any relationship to be successful, there needs to be loving communication, appreciation, and understanding.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly to a time before they met. A bitterness lingers on. Those who call this our Independence Day, fantasising of returning to a never-never time before they married, when they were free, easy, single, and master of their fate, are delusional.

However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.