Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

Debbie Harry

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Jim Clyburn

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

George Eliot

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.

Cat Stevens

Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.

Ruth Nanda Anshen

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Robert Mueller

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Chanakya

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut.

Mark Twain

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Camille Pissarro