Grayson: Fiction is just a lie anyway.Brianna: But it's not - it's a different kind of truth - it would be your truth at the time of the writing, wouldn't it?

I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

Where there is no mathematics, there is no freedom.

There are two ways of getting into the Cabinet - you can crawl in or kick your way in.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

I have the world heavyweight title not because it was 'given' to me, not because of my race or religion, but because I won it in the ring through my own boxing ability.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

You run into stereotypes so that the stereotype filters who you are and what you do, and having to deal with that was the most frustrating thing for me.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.