O Children of Men! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

Michael Berryman

I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the sound of a siren to keep fallout from taking hold of their internal organs. You have to be cockeyed to love, and blind in order to look out the window at your own ice-cold street.

Grace Paley

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

Criss Jami

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

Joe Nichols

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews.

Simon Wiesenthal

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

Bertrand Russell

Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

Allen Tate

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy

Seneca

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

Jonathan Sacks

It is a man's world, and you men can have it.

Katherine Anne Porter