"Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on"

“MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.”

“Ronan merely invested a look with as much contempt as he could muster. A lady reached over the top of Noah to pat Matthew's head fondly before continuing down the aisle. She didn't seem to care that he was fifteen, which was all right, because he didn't, either. Both Ronan and Declan observed this interaction with the pleased expressions of parents watching their prodigy at work.”

“I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring.”

Source : "Rob Portman said to be on short list for Romney vice president" by Michael Leahy, www.politico.com. May 23, 2012.

“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth. To become a power for peace, a man must first pass through experiences which lead him to see things in their different aspects: it is necessary that he have a wide horizon, and breathe various atmospheres--in a word, from crossing, one after another, paths and points of view the most diverse, and sometimes the most contradictory, he must acquire the faculty of putting himself in the place of others and appreciating them.”

Source : Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

“You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.”

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

“Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.”

“Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.”

“Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.”