"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."

“Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.”

Source : "'Law & Order: Svu' Star Mariska Hargitay Helps Real-Life Victims". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, hamptons-magazine.com. July 26, 2013.

“My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.”

Source : "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.

“Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom. But the personality formed in an environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the tasks of early adulthood-establishing independence and intimacy-burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships. She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”

“We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.”

“My career doesn't depend on painting Bill Clinton.”

“Your voice and music are the same to me.”

“My hope is that anyone who is in love, has been in love, understands love, will be a person who will stand up and say everyone deserves to feel that.”

“Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse.”