In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey

The only lack or limitation is in your own mind.

N. H. Moos

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Lenny Kravitz

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

Ken Burns

I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.

Zachary Quinto

Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.

Nadine Gordimer

The quality of a really virtuous person is to be unknown to people, or misunderstood by people, but not to be disappointed by this.

Leo Tolstoy

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Vince Lombardi