There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Paul Gauguin

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Ambrose Bierce

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Lao Tzu

So much of what I am I got from you. I had no idea how much of it was secondhand.

Peter Townsend

Patriotism ruins history.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the

Albert Einstein

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

C. Northcote Parkinson

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.

John Bradshaw

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt