"You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?"

“Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.”

“I am more vintage than I am high fashion.”

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

“Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”

“That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.”

“I am by nature the most intolerant and insular Englishman... If you happen to be a person like that and you learn from evidence (which you are prepared to accept) that in the past you have been a Chinese, an Egyptian, a Persian, a Red Indian... you begin to assume a somewhat less exclusive view of these our fellow men.”

“We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.”

Source : "Q&A: The stars of 'The Big C'!". Interview with Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. February 10, 2011.

“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”

Source : Marcus Sedgwick (2011). “Midwinterblood”, p.162, Hachette UK

“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.”