Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

Jonathan Sacks

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

Jonathan Demme

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically.

Geoffrey Rush

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

Friedrich Engels

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

Change brings opportunity.

Nido Qubein

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Lou Rawls

[J]ene Entsagungen, die die Menschen alberner Weise Tugenden nennen [...]

Oscar Wilde