"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."

“A leader must look and act the part.”

“Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.”

Source : "Read the Incredibly Moving Opinion From the Judge Who Just Struck Down Virginia’s Gay-Marriage Ban" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2014.

“I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.”

Source : Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.82, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

“All losers exaggerate because they want you to know how bad they feel.”

“Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable”

“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”

“If you don't EVOLVE, you dissolve. You evolve or you evaporate.”