Some think that by preparing to deal with crises you make them more likely. I think the wiser judgment is the contrary. In this area at least, if you want peace or stability, it's better to prepare for war or instability.

During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.

Kate Klise

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Oscar Wilde

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Tar-heart baby, let me be, let me shine bright, stop making fun of me. Stop bringing up my past un-funs.

Coco J. Ginger

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw. It's just extraordinary that we should have been given these peculiarities. Something is ironic in the world and it has to do with the fact that what you intend never comes out like you intend it.

Diane Arbus

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

Jim Wallis

When we hurt each other, when we destroy

Timothy Pina

In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archie Shepp

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

Harold Wallace Ross

I want death to find me planting my cabbage

Michel de Montaigne

The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition.

Mas'udi