This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

Christopher Hitchens

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Corazon Aquino

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

C.S. Lewis

Truth is harder to find when everyone claims to own it.

L.M. Fields

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Pearl S. Buck

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

Al Jarreau

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

John Shimkus

She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.

Rodney Dangerfield

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

These same experiences make of the sequence of life cycles a generational cycle, irrevocably binding each generation to those that gave it life and to those for whose life it is responsible. Thus, reconciling lifelong generativity and stagnation involves the elder in a review of his or her own years of active responsibility for nurturing the next generations, and also in an integration of earlier-life experiences of caring and of self-concern in relation to previous generations.

Erik H. Erickson, and Joan M. Er