We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

Tony Benn

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

James Russell Lowell

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

Jean Racine

I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era. I think of people I want to dress when I design.

Alexander McQueen

Force is not a remedy.

John Bright

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Anne Frank

There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

Cynthia McKinney

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Robert Orben

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.

Doug Larson