With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

James A. Baldwin

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

Nia Long

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development .

Willie Brown

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

Jerry Garcia

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Greil Marcus

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

Eric Liu

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

Iain Duncan Smith

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri Bergson

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo