Far from the madding crowd

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Denis Diderot

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

Thomas Mann

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

Louise Kapp Howe

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Trent Reznor

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Ambrose Bierce

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

Karen Armstrong

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

J. William Fulbright

Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything.

Larry Csonka

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Felix Adler

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci