It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

Henry Louis Gates

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

Mortimer Adler

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Martin Heidegger

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

Selma Blair

You may forget about tomorrow's concerns if you're only living for today, but others won't.

Martin Dansky

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

Diane Abbott

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

Dick Gregory

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Rachel Carson

I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?

Scott Thompson

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

George Orwell

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Al Goldstein

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young