It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

Jodi Picoult

I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

Eric Bana

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Vince Cable

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large...

Thomas Jefferson

When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of going out and blowing the cover off of the intelligence operations, that those are truly sensitive and they should not be exposed.

Scott Ritter

I know the resolution. I know the end of the story before it ever begins. I must choose love. And for this, I will surely die.

Addison Moore

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

Albert Einstein

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Helen Keller

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Anne Tyler

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

Thomas A. Edison

Ellis, was one of those people who constantly nag others to echo their own opinions.

George Orwell