You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Right is its own defense.

Bertolt Brecht

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Martin Scorsese

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

Paul A. Baran

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

Michael Weatherly

But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead. From itself never turning.

Source Unknown

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Andrew Motion

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.

Ronald Reagan

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

Danica McKellar

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Jane Austen

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Lord Lew Grade