They march into the future to the rhythm of the past.

I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

You have no future when the past rules you.

I think that everyone has something that they will kill for.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

It’s not until you’re older that you realise how important the things that happened to you when you were a kid are. Even things you only half remember.

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.

When you are deeply in love, . even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces...

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.

In really fancy restaurants they never point to the bathroom, they just gesture toward the bathroom or they'll lead you to the bathroom. The fancier the restaurant, the less pointing there is.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.