“Violence is not the answer, it doesnt work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings ...”

“When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happine...”

“If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?”

“Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.”

“Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.”

“I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.”

“Privacy is a protection from the unreasonable use of state and corporate power. But that is, in a sense, a secondary thing. In the first instance, privacy is the statement in words of a simple unde...”

“Eliza opened her furry black satchel. She pulled out a portable CD player. Gav, look here. Once, I loved this machine. Because it plays all my CDs. But nobody buys music in the stores any more! Eve...”

“Having a title only doesnt make one a leader; talented people without a title dont follow blindly, they practice leadership via influence.”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.”

“Fear and doubt are major stampeders.”

“You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.”

“When I knew people, I knew me and when I knew me, I knew people.”

“Our spirit knows our purpose, let these en-grained impressions shape our perceptions of who we think we are today.”