"Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us."

“I've punched a fan in the face because he was obnoxious. I've also pinched a child and made him cry, but I was 10 then!”

“There is great force hidden in a gentle command.”

“The idea wasn't to make a direct political statement since the current economic collapse hadn't begun when we started on the book. The parallels I'm most interested in are the ways that human nature never changes, no matter how far back in time you look.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.”

“There are all kinds of ways of being unfaithful, not the worst of them with your body.”

Source : 1988 All in the Family: A Survival Guide for Living and Loving in a Changing World.

“I'm not concerned about weapons of mass destruction.”

“To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2009). “Mortals and Others”, p.318, Routledge

“In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.”