The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.

Jean Baudrillard

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Ross Perot

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.

Alice Walker

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Cher

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Louise Brooks

Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last?

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

Gus Van Sant

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Fabrice Luchini

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

Stephen King

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.

William Shakespeare

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.

Charles de Secondat