"Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true andfalse but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation."

“I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.”

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”

“Before he goes into the water, a diver cannot know what he will bring back.”

Source : Max Ernst, Werner Spies, Karin von Maur, Tate Gallery, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (1991). “Max Ernst: a retrospective”, Prestel Pub

“Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.”

“Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost.”

Source : "Yep, Eric Cantor Really Said All of These Things" by Austin Tedesco, www.boston.com. June 11, 2014.

“German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.”

“I hang out with models, the biggest pop stars and, you know, really and honestly, I hate saying this, but none of them are achieving those body shapes by being healthy.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”