I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching.

Life didn't explode in the sunshine and pretty places. Life took the strongest root with a little bit of rain and with a whole lot of shit for fertilizer. Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle.

Karen Marie Moning

Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.

Alexi Sayle

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Lewis Thomas

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

Will: 'Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don't we, James? I doubt I'd have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?'Jem: 'Yang guizi ... foreign devils.

Cassandra Clare

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

True love is born from understanding.

The Buddha

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues.

Harry Belafonte

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Padma Lakshmi