I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

Bernie Sanders

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

George Eliot

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Lionel Blue

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

Chris Martin

Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

Manolo Blahnik

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Blaise Pascal

You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we can never trust the Bear. For one reason, the Bear doesn

John Le Carr, The Secret Pilgrim

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

Albert Einstein

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know that there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government, I stand in awe and I kneel in respect. And it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song.http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/denver.htm

Leonard Cohen, commenting on his

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When you strike at a king, you must kill him

Ralph Waldo Emerson