"What you hope for, you also fear."

-- Alice Walker

“No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?”
“In terms of the frustration of my character, I suppose any teenager has probably gone through that, in terms of telling their parents, I want to do one thing, and their parent says no. I think parents sometimes forget that they were children.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With His right hand He is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, a critic remarked to the painter, "Mr. Hunt, the work is unfinished. There is no handle on the door." "That," Hunt answered, "is the door to the human heart. It can be opened only from the inside."”
“Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.”
“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.”
“Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.”
“I spend a lot of time talking to people who disagree with me - I would go so far as to say that it's my favourite leisure activity,”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.”

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