"A celebrity now is someone who's on the telly."

“Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell you, the teachers tell you when they grade you. I think that's very good in the early stages, because it helps you then develop skills. But at some point in your career, generally I think when you are in your teens, you look in a mirror and you have to say, despite all the bumps and warts, "I like that person I'm looking at, and let's just do our best."”

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...”

Source : Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

“I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.”

“I remember my parents yelling at each other and at me from an early age, and I remember a lot of things smashing. I try to look for the happy memories from the brief time my parents were married, and I can't really recall that. From the start things were messed up, and I just kept moving through the years and trying to pick out the little bits of evidence that would help me prove to myself that it wasn't my doing. But it took finding out somebody really does love me, who's not my parents or a relative, to really know that I was loveable.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.”

“I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.”

“You don't fall in love with a gender, you fall in love with a person.”

“A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.”