"It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today."

“May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.”

“There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.”

“The Iraqi elections were an important first step.”

“The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.”

Source : "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

“The ocean . . . cold and wild the surf, rushing in to overwhelm the beach, the wind, stinging my cheeks, enveloping me in total freedom.”

“Very good laws may be ill timed.”

“Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso (1845). “The Shadowless Man; Or, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl”

“September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.”