"I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember."

“I feel like the stillness of Ralph Angel - him being formerly incarcerated, being a Black man, being misunderstood in this world, I felt like that brought him to a place where he thought he had to be an observer - externally and internally.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

“A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.”

“The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.”

“There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Contentment is knowing you're right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.”

“I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ...”

“So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.”

Source : "Jerry Seinfeld Interviews Regis Philbin on His Television Career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

“Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.”