"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."

“Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?”

Source : "What I've Learned: Garry Shandling". www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“Male privilege and entitlement are dying a very painful death; no one gives up power without a struggle.”

Source : "Gloria Allred's Fighting Spirit" by Leslie Bennetts, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 1, 2010.

“The one enemy in the world that America has is England. But then, England is the great land of Christian civilization, and it may not be a thing to be much wondered at that our Americans whom we send to represent us in London become in a short time somewhat civilized, and learn to love those who hate them, bless those that curse them, and do good to those that persecute and calumniate them.”

Source : Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (1898). “Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898: Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood. Customs, Habits and Manners of the Irish People. Erinach and Sassenach-Catholic and Protestant-Englishman and Irishman-English Religion-Irish Plunder. Social Life and Prison Life. The Fenian Movement. Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America”

“A voice speaks to each of us in the still silent places - a voice that tells us to stand, to have courage, to do what is right.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2001). “The Secret Texts”, p.50, Hachette UK

“Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.”

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source : Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

“We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.”

“What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.”

Source : "Buddha, Volume 2: The Four Encounters". Book by Osamu Tezuka, 1983.