It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.

Christopher Hitchens

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Orlando Bloom

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Robert Kiyosaki

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols

Aldous Huxley

For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

Hesiod

I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

Susan Sarandon

Nurture your mind with great thoughts.

Benjamin Disraeli

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

Fritz Todt

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

Gore Vidal

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin