By believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment.

It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.

Paul Farmer

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.

Claire Danes

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Edie Brickell

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.

Jerry Saltz

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Isaac Watts

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

So Marigold, my love, you've had too much to drink

Tomas Kalnoky

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

Bertrand Russell

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Edward Moore

Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not to seek the truth, but already to possess it.

Romain Rolland

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Lesley Garrett