In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Li

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Pierre Charron

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka...

Stephen King

Almost all people descend to meet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

Jo Bonner

We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

Malcolm Wallop

Computers make me totally blank out.

Dalai Lama

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

Neil Gaiman

They speak of my drinking but never think of my thirst

Scottish Proverb

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

Michael Haneke

You know I guess one person can make a difference.

Stan Lee