"I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more."

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.”

Source : Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

“What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willing to control, assert dominance, and behave cruelly. That's a whole kind of new nightmare to really have to face about your own species. That we are, in some respects, cannibalistic, in that we are willing to destroy ourselves. That's really something for me to be exploring over the long haul.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com

“There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.”

“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.”

“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

“Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.”

“If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.”

Source : "Dominic West: 'People seem to think I'm Satan'" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2011.

“I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.”

Source : "'Why are the catwalks so white?'". Interview with Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.