"The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment."

“Look, my friends, if I'm a racist, this doesn't mean that I hate brown people”

“I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.”

“I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.”

Source : "The Saturday interview: Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2011.

“The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".”

Source : Source: u-in-u.com

“I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.”

“My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.”

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it. What appears bad manners, an ill temper or cynicism is always a sign of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”

Source : Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

“Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.”