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“God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”
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“Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.”
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“Don't chase women, they will chase you. They are like horses in a pasture: if you don't go drooling over her, she is going to want to know why.”
Source : Piers Morgan (2013). “Shooting Straight: Guns, Gays, God, and George Clooney”, p.144, Simon and Schuster
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“I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead man walking' but 'dead men' cannot have 'nightmares'.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Source : Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
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“If women are the key to Africa's future - and I believe they are - we must figure out how to take away the barriers to their participation.”
Source : "The Promise of Africa’s Women" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2013. 
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“During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.”
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“I believe in the greatness of our democracy.”
Source : BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
