Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Gael Garcia Bernal

My dad's one of my biggest heroes. I also think Paul Newman's an inspiration. I know a lot of people say that, but I love that he's a great role model and a humanitarian. I admire people who don't necessarily want to change the world, but try to make it a better environment.

Alex Pettyfer

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

Walter F. Mondale

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Cassandra Clare

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Haile Gebrselassie

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.

Stephen Carter

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

The commercial work of today is the classics of tomorrow.

Orson Scott Card

Time did not compose her.

Jane Austen

It's sin and not poverty that makes men miserable.

Scottish Proverb