Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

It is because they took the easy way out that rivers, and people, go crooked.

Jill Peterson

Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.

Alan Dixon

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness. This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am.Try to be one of us, repeated Davin. In your heart you are an Irishman but your pride is too powerful.My ancestors threw off their language and took another, Stephen said. They allowed a handful of foreigners to subject them. Do you fancy that I am going to pay in my own life and person debts they made? What for?For our freedom, said Davin.No honourable and sincere man, said Stephen, has given up to you his life and his youth and his affections from the days of Wolfe Tone to those of Parnell, but you sold him to the enemy or failed him in need or reviled him and left him for another. And you invite me to be one of you. I'd see you damned first.They died for their ideals, Stevie, said Davin. Our day will come yet, believe me.Stephen, following his own thought, was silent for an instant...When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets ... Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the A

The saving man becomes the free man.

Chinese Proverb

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Oscar Wilde

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

William Pitt

Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.

XuanThu Nguyen

Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

Frieda Lawrence

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if you employ him, don't suspect him.

Chinese Proverb

You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning . Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

Mitch Albom