My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

Kenneth Robert Livingstone

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Fritz Lang

Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.

Jim Rohn

Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.

Rob Sheffield

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Frederik Pohl

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Jodi Picoult

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

James Madison

a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow

Markus Zusak

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

My mom was really vigorous about making sure that we saw things and that we questioned things. Education was so important to both of my parents.

Jennifer Garner

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Robert Collier

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Drew Barrymore