The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Part of it went on gambling and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

Traveling you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities places exchange their form order distances a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.

There are three roads to ruin women gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women the quickest is with gambling but the surest is with technicians.

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology mythology as we shall see is not about opting out of this world but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up because by the time I was really conscious Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him which is a very close one really developed in more recent years.

All things by immortal power. Near of far to each other linked are that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.

There is no gambling like politics.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

As I pass it I feel as if I saw a dear old mother sweet in her weakness trembling at the approach of her dissolution but not appealing to me against the inevitable rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience and pointing to a hopeful future.

It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues you know and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally and it changed my complete outlook on music.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling fountains splashing. Weirs waterfalls tumbling gushing.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Suffering isn't ennobling recovery is.

Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.