"Jean-Paul Sartre said that France was freer than ever during the German occupation, when people had no choices but one: to collaborate or to resist. I'm not saying there was something good about that system. But the freest people I've ever met, or knew about, belonged to that period. For example, Musine Kokalari, an Albanian writer who dared to fight for political pluralism and free elections. She created the first social democratic party, despite knowing the high price she would have to pay."

“God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.”

“Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.”

“Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn't with me as against me.”

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

“I get to kind of pretend I'm going to play baseball. I get to work out and do all the stuff that was part of baseball. I just don't get to play.”

Source : Source: sports-ak.espn.go.com

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”

Source : Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.121, A&C Black

“And of course, in the case of Barack Obama, had he not won primaries - and particularly the heavily important caucus in Iowa - if the public hadn't shown that they were prepared to vote for a black president, we wouldn't have one today.”

Source : "The American Political Invention That 'Let The People Rule'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

“You know what’s best for you, and you know what will make you happy.”

Source : Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 4, 2010.

“Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.”