I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

Malcolm Mclaren

We must take action now, by permitting re-importation, to ensure that health care and prescription drugs remain accessible and affordable for everyone.

Michael K. Simpson

For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet.

Virginia Woolf

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

Will Durant

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves SaintLaurent

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.

Henry Reed

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert Gyorgyi