From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, then they are only too happy to let us know. When they are up to no good, they want that kept secret.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

They want us dead, ' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of

I, as a Muslim woman living in 1993, I want to have two things - the mosque and the satellite, both at the same time. And no one can mutilate me by telling me I cannot have the mosque or the Koran.

Jazz isn't as profitable for labels like Hip hop or Rap. Jazz needs subsidies to continue, just like European classical works of Bach and Beethoven are subsidized.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

As Buddhism moved from one culture to another, it always adapted.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.