"Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol..."

“It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.”

“When I think about it like that, it feels like a burden. But that won't mean I'll be single for the rest of my life - I hope. I feel very settled with myself in my world. I don't feel as needy and desperate to prove things about myself. In my twenties I was very keen to achieve this and disprove this and that. Now I enjoy just being able to concentrate on my children and my work and myself.”

“Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary] Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

“The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.”

“I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history of the Second World War.”

“Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.”

“We're living in a time where movies are very unimportant. They're not leaving a footprint on your heart. We're going to the movies now and we're going, "Oh, man, that was cool! That was thrilling! That was a ride!" But, we're not walking away anymore thinking, "I just experienced something that could change the way I live."”

Source : "Daniel Gillies Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, The Spin-Off THE ORIGINALS, His Directorial Debut BROKEN KINGDOM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 16, 2013.

“We chat about clothes and if we're going on the red carpet we definitely talk about what we are going to wear.”