The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I

Theodore White

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.

Christopher Hitchens

We have so far to go to realize our human potential for compassion, altruism, and love.

Jane Goodall

Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

Orson Scott Card

A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Mark Twain

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

Oscar Wilde

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Chris Bailey

You change the world by being yourself.

Yoko Ono

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is allYe know on Earth, and all ye need to know.http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/urn.html ...there is no definitive text for this poem. No manuscript in Keats's handwriting survives.

John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey