Sometimes there are historical moments when a country's course could be turned one way or the other, when fate can be escaped.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.

A meeting is an occasion when people gather together, some to say what they do not think, and others not to say what they really do.

When you deny something your power is much more conspicuous than when you approve it.

Among other things a marriage is a system of belief, a story, and though it manifests itself in things that are real enough, the impulse that drives it is ultimately mysterious.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.