If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Anna Chlumsky

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.

Jodi Picoult

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Leo Tolstoy

What she really craved was a connection. That feeling you got when you knew you were supposed to be with someone.

J. Sterling

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Claire McCaskill

Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

Theodore White, The Making of th

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

James A. Baldwin

The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.

Don Johnson

I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.

Leona Lewis

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

E. M. Forster