"You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil."

“The opposite of anger is not calmness, its empathy.”

Source : "Q&A with Mehmet Oz: Don’t Let the Finance Crisis Become a Health Crisis". Interview with Anthony Tjan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2007.

“I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.”

“Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which the Earth was abnormally quiet.”

“Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life...”

Source : Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

“If I take donations from Big Corporates to fund our election campaign, I'll be accountable to them and would have to do what they tell me to do after winning elections. But if I take donations from common people to fund our Election Campaign, after winning, I'll be accountable to them”

“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”

“Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,”

“I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.”

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