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“I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I'm trying to please everybody, and ya just can't do that ... at least I can't.”
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“Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.”
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“Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.”
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“The Yankees had to fight all year to get in. When you're fighting all year and fighting all year, it wears you out a little bit.”
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“There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the model of responsible statesmanship. I think that is a misconception, the idea that Lincoln knows what's possible and the abolitionists don't.”
Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010. 
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“Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.”
Source : Interview with Peter and Helen Evans, www.orthodoxytoday.org. September 17, 2005.
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“Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.”
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“People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.”
Source : "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.
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“Who will bell the cat?”
Source : William Langland (1874). “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman”, p.101
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“I don't want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons. I just want to boil him in oil.”
