"The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted."

“Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There are many things throughout the history of science which we now think to be incorrect which nonetheless would fit that which would fit that definition. Yes, astrology is in fact one.”

“You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.”

“True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.”

“Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.”

“I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.”

Source : "Ferraro Recounts Second Thoughts On Her Nomination, Citing Scrutiny" by Jane Perlez, www.nytimes.com. August 25, 1984.

“Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.”

“Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.”

Source : James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

“I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.”

Source : Liv Ullmann, Robert Emmet Long (2006). “Liv Ullmann: Interviews”, p.136, Univ. Press of Mississippi