"I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not."

“The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.”

“Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.”

“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”

“I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.”

Source : "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

“I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!”

“By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their inquiry, for we are rather apprehensive of what may be asked of us; we do not foster their discontent, for we ourselves have ceased to question.”

“Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.”

Source : Salvador de Madariaga (1974). “Morning without noon: memoirs”

“The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”