The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

A king asked a holy man, Do you remember about me? The holy man answered, Yes, I think about you when I forget about God.

Leo Tolstoy

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

Samuel Dash

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Kevin Kelly

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Yogi Berra

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.

Robert Frost

Of a water that flows,With a lullaby sound,From a spring but a very fewFeet under ground --From a cavern not very farDown under ground.

Edgar Allan Poe, For Annie (1849

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

Orson Welles

I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Mira Nair

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I really like you better aimless and lost among people, a little crazy, oddball, not looking like yourself. So that I don't know you at all and the nearer I get to you the more you separate yourself from me-- I get dizzy trying to follow you and I have to work really hard-- and that's what I want!

Alia Mamdouh

The goal of socialism is communism.

Vladimir Lenin