"Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, its facing the death you know is coming."

“I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.”

“I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.”

“I had some music lessons and my mum played every instrument but the guitar.”

“I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.”

“Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working.”

“And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!”

“Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

Source : Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856

“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press