Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Only free men can negotiate prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Nelson Mandela

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

Gabrielle Union

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

St. Catherine of Genoa

Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

Jack Bruce

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Jack McDevitt

The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

Ambrose Bierce

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

Cassandra Clare

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Philip Pullman

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet...where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That's a very good damn question!

Lois McMaster Bujold, The Spirit

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Frank Stella

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Dr. Walter Smith

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

Bob Etheridge