Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra, I learn. They feel everything, they enjoy everything, they have amazing energy.

Well, beauty's in the eye of the beholder... It's all subjective. I'm kind of shy about it, but I'll take it.

Marisa Miller

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within

Mahatma Gandhi

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.

John Quinton

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

Salvador Dali

You should not be upset by the sight of wisdom being criticized. Wisdom would not be wisdom if it did not reveal the stupidity of a bad life, and people would not be people if they endured this revelation without criticism.

Leo Tolstoy

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian S. Huxley

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helen Keller

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

Jane Austen

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Napoleon Hill

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Josh Billings

As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.

Christopher Hitchens