"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."

“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.”

“Besides, many Islamic movements will change as soon as they gain political responsibility. I'm not at all pessimistic in this regard. Just think of Turkey, where the Islamists are now behaving like a sort of Christian Democratic party in Europe.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“I guess the subject of race is so natural to me I never think of it as hefty. It's something I talk about and joke about and discuss with my loved ones every day of my life.”

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“Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.”

“But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide. "Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.”

“Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.”

“Where I can preach I do preach and where I can't I still preach with love but just not the normal words we usually use in church.”

“You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.”

Source : "‘Moneyball’ Godfather Bill James Tackles Politics In Super PAC Age" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.