'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

E. M. Cioran

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Dwight D Eisenhower

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Sarah McLachlan

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

Todd Gitlin

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

Daniel Day-Lewis

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Teemu Selanne

This is a business of love and labor.

Chester Bennington

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

Bianca Jagger