I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.

Sri Ramakrishna

I try to act out of faith.

Marian Wright Edelman

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Joe DiMaggio

'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'

Charles Dickens

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Elliot Richardson

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Gustav Mahler

Money is a tremendous advantage in just about everything, but in terms of reproduction, if you're a poor woman and you are infertile, it's like too bad, so sad. And if you are a wealthy woman, you can kind of buy whatever you want.

Jennifer Weiner

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Phyllis McGinley

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Ralph Steadman

We simply do not understand our place in the universe and have not the courage to admit it.

Barry Lopez

The glories of our blood and state
 Are shadows, not substantial things;
 There is no armour against fate;
 Death lays his icy hands on kings.

Oscar Wilde

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope