History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

I thought I can throw away all my memories but whenever I tell my mind to do it, memories stick it more...!!

Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.

Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in.

I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

Survey says: one more for the bad guys.

I’m a little worried about Edward… Can vampires go into shock? Bella Cullen, Breaking Dawn, Chapter 7, p.129