"For all their talk about the virtues of democracy, many incumbent politicians really don't like it when voters have a voice-not if that voice is effective."

“It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.”

“Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?”

“I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics.”

“We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.”

“When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.”

“My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.”

“With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.”

Source : Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.372, Penguin

“People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.”

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