"Independence used to be the ticket for liberty. But today, security and freedom, whether it's in the Arab Spring, whether it's in Iraq or whether it's right here in the United States, means working cooperatively and interdependently with others."

“Here in America, people are very professional.”

“Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.”

“I don't want to become this lazy person, a guy who thinks in terms of New Year's resolutions. I really do want to see a change in myself in certain ways, but I want to figure out exactly what they are and not have it be like a diet that I'm trying.”

“I'm just a normal kid who lives to play baseball. I'm living my dream.”

“The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.”

“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who’s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (don’t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) he’ll find the treasure.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House

“I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 21, 2005.

“When you grow up, your heart dies.”

Source : Jaime Clarke, Ally Sheedy (2007). “Don't you forget about me: contemporary writers on the films of John Hughes”, Gallery