Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

All our ancient history, as one of our wits remarked, is no more than accepted fiction.

Voltaire

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit, not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Dianne Feinstein

I was always a singer. But I was always focused on being an actor as my trade. Music I do just for me. The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible.

Jeremy Renner

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be --not understood, but divined.

Remy de Gourmont

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

Joseph De Maistre

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Abu Bakr

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

John Adams

I'm convinced I got signed because of who I am. And it makes me sad.

Jeff Buckley

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Stokely Carmichael

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

David Herbert Lawrence

The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.

Swami Brahmanada

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

David Herbert Lawrence