If you meet a woman in a burqa she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely more beautifully more devotedly than ever before.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying 'Just watch!'

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass ' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it I think is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me because I know who I am.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.