All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. that's not the place to become discouraged.

Thomas Alva Edison

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Barbara Castle

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Toni Morrison

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.

Abu Sa'id

Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political, financial and military support, and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.

Tom Lantos

The photographic image... is a message without a code.

Roland Barthes

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Paul Ryan

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so.

Richard D. Rosen

The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.

Meshulam Riklis