Let a man turn to his own childhood -- no further -- if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

Alanis Morissette

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.

Cornel West

This Bush administration has a growing credibility gap, maybe even a credibility chasm, on environmental policy. The President has lost the trust of the American people when it comes to the environment.

Jim Jeffords

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

Cassandra Clare

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

Samuel Smiles

Nothing but good times ahead.

Jennifer Crusie

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

Where else, but from the industrialized world, did the suicide hijackers learn that the huge explosions and death above a city skyline are a peculiar and effective form of communication? They have mastered the language.

Chris Hedges

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Thomas Jefferson

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

V. S. Pritchett

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.

Albert Einstein

Ye golden hours of Life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright, beyond all imagining, Thou fairy-dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of Life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer-day.

Lewis Carroll