"The moment people come to know love, they run the risk of carrying hate."

“In three weeks Britain will have her neck wrung like a chicken.”

“Progressive companies regard climate change as an opportunity rather than a threat”

“If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”

“In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.”

Source : Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

“I grew up on film scores and scores from films.”

“The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.”

“At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.”

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

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.”