"The only thing that can change Japan is a change in government."

“Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.”

Source : Harold D. Lasswell (1986). “Psychopathology and Politics”, p.8, University of Chicago Press

“I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.'”

“Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.”

“I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.”

“But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.”

“I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.”

“Evil news fly faster still than good.”

Source : Thomas Kyd, David Bevington (1996). “The Spanish Tragedy”, p.33, Manchester University Press

“If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession”

Source : Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation