A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

History is a vast early warning system.

Norman Cousins

It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private exertions but it is no less bad policy to let those things alone which can only be promoted by interfering social power.

Friedrich List

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.

Aldous Huxley

I'm a private person too, and we don't ever film anything in our home because it's off limits. It's like letting people see your messy house.

Carrie Underwood

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Frida Kahlo

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Peter McWilliams

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

Mira Nair

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Alistair Cooke

Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Bertrand Russell