My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by the beginning of 1942, the Japanese invasion of Burma and Singapore had started.Tom Stoppard
If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.Tom Stoppard
As a child, I was airlifted out of the path of the Nazis. Unfortunately, I was parachuted into the path of the Japanese, but then I was airlifted again to India.Tom Stoppard
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.Honoré de Balzac
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.Honoré de Balzac
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.Napoleon Hill
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.Sigmund Freud