"I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings."

“God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.”

“I decided to go into politics because of our Soviet-style government.”

Source : "Bidzina Ivanishvili: the eccentric billionaire chasing Georgia's leadership" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2012.

“Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of suspected terrorists to black sites where they were administered enhanced interrogation techniques, which by the way is a direct, literal translation of "verschärfte Vernehmung" right out of the Gestapo manual.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.”

“I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.”

“Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?”

“There's a lot of me in Captain Jack and there's a lot of Captain Jack in me. And there is no pun intended.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.”

Source : Richard Whately (1839). “Essays on Some of the Dangers to Christian Faith”, p.335