The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

Mervyn GriffithJones

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.

Kevin James Breaux

The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

Hugh Jackman

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Edith Wharton

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Darrell Issa

To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people (here I was still following Luria's example). Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.

James D. Watson

How use doth breed a habit in man!

William Shakespeare

At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.

Bryan Cranston

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Martha Plimpton

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz