At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Antony Sher

Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.

Leon Trotsky

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

Padma Lakshmi

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Lindsey Graham

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Oliver Goldsmith

The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.

Albert Pike

There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Jane Austen

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

Edgar Allan Poe

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

Julie Christie

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Sogyal Rinpoche

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Truth by definition excludes.

Ravi Zacharias