"Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities."

“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.”

Source : "Upton readies for super committee" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. August 10, 2011.

“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”

“He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”

“Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.”

“If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.”

Source : James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

“I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.”

“While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.”

Source : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.

“You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.”