"Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to."

“I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.”

Source : "Jason Reitman: 'Growing up sucks, doesn't it?'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.

“It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.”

“If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.”

“The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.”

Source : Speech in Berlin on April 07, 1938. "Trial of the Germans". Book by Eugene Davidson, 1966.

“Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes ...”

Source : Muriel Spark (2014). “Loitering with Intent”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

“There's only one truth”

“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.”

“The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.”