I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions.

The way to fame goes thorough the palaces, the way to happiness does through the markets, the way to virtue goes through the deserts.

Leo Tolstoy

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.

William Blake

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

Roland Joffe

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Barbara Ehrenreich

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Leo Burnett

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

Gary L. Francione

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Oprah Winfrey

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Mireille Enos

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

Robert Nelson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?

Nikita Khrushchev