Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

Karen Armstrong

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

Henry David Thoreau

Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Philip K. Dick

I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man.

Gene Tierney

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Our only hope is to control the vote.

Medgar Evers

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.To find that answer, we need only look within ourselves.When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things--such as goodness, decency, love, kindness.Greatness comes in simple trappings.

Richard Milhous Nixon, First Ina

Whatever life we have experienced, if we can tell our story to someone who listens, we find it easier to deal with our circumstances.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

Bertolt Brecht