The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Sometimes when you get older and I'm not talking about you, I'm talking generally, because everyone ages differently things you think on and wish on start to seem real. And then you believe them, and before you know it they're a part of your history, and if someone challenges you on them and says they're not true why, then you get offended.

Sara Gruen

He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind. Repeat mechanically your assumptions and suggestions, diminish the opportunity for communicating dissent and opposition. This is the formula for political conditioning of the masses.

Joost Meerloo, The Rape of the M

I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.

Karl Rove

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.

William Shakespeare

Twitter, to me, works if you're funny. Twitter doesn't work as a promotional tool unless you do it very, very, very occasionally.

Albert Brooks

We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.

Jodi Picoult

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Leo Tolstoy

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

Josh Hutcherson

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.

Jeff Zaslow

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

Hannah Arendt

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

Robert Casey