A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

Orson Scott Card

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

Kahlil Gibran

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

Billy Bragg

George Clooney's 'Ides of March' could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they're gonna go back and say, 'Oh, that was American politics in that time period.' I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.

Harvey Weinstein

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

George Bernard Shaw

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Nate Silver

Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

Julian Bond

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.

Albert Einstein

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

Alfred Edward Housman

A resilient people cherishing liberty and equality and the rule of law will endure.

Nick Rahall

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

Ernest Hemingway