As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Time whose tooth gnaws away everything else is powerless against truth.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

Lost time is never found again.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'm pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It's so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you're like Oy! It's the same thing again!

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

Well I could do it for a day but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with but you can't go back to them and be one of them again no matter how hard you try.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion and again there's a proper time for a pat down there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search but it has to be done with some thought.

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology but still in the old style.

Technology is teaching us to be human again.

I never wore a tie voluntarily even though I was forced to wear one for photos when I was young and for official events at school. I used to wrap my tie in a newspaper and whenever the teacher checked I would quickly put it on again. I'm not used to it. Most Bolivians don't wear ties.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.