"I fully understand some people don't believe it's possible for freedom and democracy to overcome this ideology of hatred. I understand that. I just happen to believe it is possible. And I believe it will happen."

“I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.”

“I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.”

“At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion.”

Source : Diana Trilling (1981). “Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor”, Harcourt

“Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.”

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

“Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.”

Source : William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

“I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?”

“The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.”

Source : Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press

“It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.”