"Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them."

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.”

“I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot.”

“My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.”

“On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted.”

Source : "Pedro to Chelsea: Barcelona winger's change of heart from Manchester United one of football's great transfer changes". Article by Kate Cohen, www.foxsports.com.au. August 20, 2015.

“To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.”

Source : "Hand-Crafted Voices With 'Futurama' Actor Billy West". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. June 20, 2011.

“Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.”

“Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.”

Source : Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, Penguin Books

“Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.”