"I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well."

“To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace....”

Source : Ben Macintyre (2013). “Forgotten Fatherland: The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche”, p.195, A&C Black

“School was not a place I enjoyed.”

“It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself up out of the dark abyss of pish and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.”

“Doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican in Michigan. We want jobs in Michigan.”

“If you give, you will be blessed.”

“We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind?”

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

“I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.”

Source : "Park Geun-hye claims South Korea presidential victory" by Madison Park, Paula Hancocks, KJ Kwon, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2012.