Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

What these people were trying to create or re-create here in this new world is beyond me. I can't put myself in their minds or their hearts, but I can sympathize with their struggle for an identity, with their puzzlement, which has troubled Americans from the very beginning - Who are we, where do we fit in, where are we going?

Nelson Demille

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Woody Allen

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Paul Dirac

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

Marguerite Duras

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

Tipper Gore

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, through the efforts of your intellect, becomes a member of your own body, and only this truth really belongs to us.

Leo Tolstoy

I would look at a dog and when our eyes met, I realized that the dog and all creatures are my family. They're like you and me.

Ziggy Marley

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Helmut Jahn

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep

A.P. Herbert

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide,By self-example mayst thou be denied.

William Shakespeare