"Reading that pleases and profits, that together delights and instructs, has all that one should desire."

“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”

“Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.”

“I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.”

Source : "Ang Lee Talks Brokeback Mountain". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. December 7, 2005.

“If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.”

“It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.”

“A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.”

“Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.”

Source : "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1999– ).

“We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.”