"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect."

“I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.”

“What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way?”

“I always was into singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes. When I was in high school I wanted to do a project that was like that. Weatherbox is the name of a song by Mission of Burma so I just had a theoretical acoustic project while I was in high school that didn't actually exist.”

“I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.”

“I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.”

“We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.”

Source : "Olympics: Now make a level playing field for women" by Jackie Joyner-Kersee, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

“It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.”

“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.”