Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

I hear my silence talked of in every lane;The suppression of a cry is itself a cry of pain.

Darshan Singh

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

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Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

Louis Farrakhan

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herbie Hancock

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Friedrich von Schiller

I have enough music coming out of my kids' bedrooms when I'm at home.

Rod Stewart

It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.

Hubert de Givenchy

Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.

Friedrich Nietzsche