"In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead."

“There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.”

“Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin We could plan a murder Or start a religion.”

“A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.”

Source : "The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge (p. 14), en.wikiquote.org. 1990.

“Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.143, Penguin

“I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved and given an expression or markings to reveal something, even though it's shielding the face. Even though it's hiding the face, it seems to reveal something underneath.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.”

“Those who trust others will find that not everyone is necessarily sincere, but they will be sincere themselves. Those who suspect others will find that not everyone is necessarily deceiving them, but they have already become deceivers themselves.”

“It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club”