People live up to your expectations, not their potential.

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.

Moral capitalism is possible; if not, its strictures are only a kind of misleading vanity, the rhetoric of a secular piety.

Persistence goes a lot farther than brains.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

If you really want something, you've got to keep going after it.

You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

Time will explain.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Resentment generates hate

No one else sees you as the villain here, but you gotta stop being a victim babe.

You have to be interested in inequality. The issue of inequality and that of poverty are not separable.

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again.

I wander around in corsets in my house all the time. I'm a lot girlier than the roles I play, but I don't believe there's anything wrong in this business for being typecast.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.