I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

Anthony Kiedis

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Albert SzentGyorgyi

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Charles Montesquieu

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

Freedom exists only with power.

Friedrich von Schiller

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Albert Camus

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

One way to find food for thought is to use the fork in the road, the bifurcation that marks the place of emergence in which a new line of development begins to branch off.

William Irwin Thompson

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Mao Zedong