Music is the vapour of art.

The heart always sees before than the head can see.

Thomas Carlyle

Kids are brought into show business because they are cute and see truth and they're very bright. But there's a sense of doing it because you want the adults to be approving of you. You want to make them happy.

Anna Chlumsky

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?

Vaclav Havel

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

Felix Baumgartner

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Stephen King

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Albert Einstein

Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don't live up to their promises.

John Dobbin

When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason and calculation, by presenting to the being so unhappily conformed, other motives to do good and to eschew evil, such as the love, or the hatred, or the rejection of those among whom he lives, and whose society is necessary to his happiness and even existence; demonstrations by sound calculation that honesty promotes interest in the long run; the rewards and penalties established by the laws; and ultimately the prospects of a future state of retribution for the evil as well as the good done while here. These are the correctives which are supplied by education, and which exercise the functions of the moralist, the preacher, and legislator; and they lead into a course of correct action all those whose depravity is not too profound to be eradicated.

Thomas Jefferson, to Thomas Law,

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

David K. Shipler

They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.

Lil Wayne

To walk because it is good for you warps the sould, just as it warps the soul for a man to talk for hire or because he think it his duty.

Hilaire Belloc, The Footpath Way

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Taslima Nasrin