Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity.

And so this is Xmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.

John Lennon

However, many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

Tim Murphy

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

David Hockney

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Alfred Austin

Forget the past.

Nelson Mandela

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

Joan Armatrading

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Thomas J. Watson

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

There is no sin except stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato