"So ... will you stay with me until it's over? Please?" "Kaylee, I would do anything for the girl who granted my dying wish."

“Ultimately journalism has changed... partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.”

Source : "CBS President Says at Obama Fundraiser 'Partisanship Is Very Much a Part of Journalism Now'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. June 7, 2012.

“I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.”

“I get cast gay a fair amount throughout my life. It's not the first time. Matt [Letscher] was kind of like, 'Jeff, um, I'm gonna pretend this is real easy and not a problem, but I've never done this at all.' And so you know, we were awkward for a while. And then he said, 'Let's go for it. Come on. I'm gonna pretend you're my girlfriend, my wife. Here we go.' And we had a lot of fun.”

“I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.”

“What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay.”

“God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.”

“Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”

Source : Thornton Wilder (1961). “Twayne's United States Authors Series”

“To be sure, India has achieved enviable success in business services, like the glistening call centers in Bangalore and elsewhere. But in the global jousting for manufacturing jobs, India does not get its share.”