Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.

Salman Rushdie

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

Jodi Picoult

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

You're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.

Julia Green

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Barry McCaffrey

All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.

Ernest Hemingway

It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs.

Schillerbuch

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Maria Sharapova

Opportunities are often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be listening.

Source Unknown

Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

William Butler Yeats

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres