"The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet."

“The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (1987). “Bertrand Russell on ethics, sex, and marriage”

“All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.”

“My husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all.”

Source : "NBC's Ann Curry: John McCain is Old, He's 71. Did I Mention He's 71?". "Today" with Ann Curry, www.newsbusters.org. May 8, 2008.

“The older you get the more realistic it is that you're significant other is your significant other. I mean, you'll always have your girlfriends or your guy friends, but the person you're married to is usually your No. 1.”

“Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.”

“I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?”

“I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I'm going to jump the counter.”

“A practical girl never pines; she takes action.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.130, Simon and Schuster