"Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death."

“My wife and I are living large in our beloved Miami and I'm working on the things that are important to me.”

“You should always look like a star. Otherwise people will lose a little of the esteem they have for you.”

“The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.”

“The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.”

Source : "Russ Feingold: ‘It’s A Threat To Our Country’ To Elect One Of The GOP Presidential Candidates" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2012.

“I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.”

“Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the 90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

Source : Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ch. 17 (1997)

“Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved,”