There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.

I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.

Dan Aykroyd

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Simone de Beauvoir

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Karl Rove

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

James Spader

Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.

Zayn Malik

I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

Clarence Darrow

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Madeleine Albright

girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those in the know assured me that they were beautiful.

Jake Vander Ark

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves.

E. M. Forster

The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.

Bertrand Russell

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick