Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.

Self-liberation is the greatest victory.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

We are destroying capitalism to pay for socialism.

All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.