The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.

William L. Shirer

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

Amit Ray

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

Theodore Roethke

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Elbert Hubbard

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Thomas Fuller

It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.

Jerry Saltz

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubinstein

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

John Dyer

Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

American Indian Proverb

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

Jay Leno

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Barry McCaffrey