Why throw money at problems? That's what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.

Phaedrus

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Emily Greene Balch

Bush sees the evil as out there in the wider world, residing in people who 'hate freedom'. Look at his immediate response to the pictures of prisoner abuse this is not what Americans do, these are not our values.

Peter Singer

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Aneurin Bevan

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Rosie Thomas

There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

David Attenborough

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Tami Hoag

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

Antonio Tabucchi

The earth laughs in flowers.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

Ground not upon dreams you know they are ever contrary.

Thomas Middleton