"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."

“At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right, and it is a very serious matter.”

Source : "NSA files - Merkel and Hollande call for talks with US by end of year - live" by Paul Owen, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

“Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.”

Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

“In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.”

“What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.”

“I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.”

“No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent”

“Only very coarse persons wanted wars.”

“Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.”