Give them time to think things over.

You do not know a situation until you experience .

We downplay our excellence when we only depend on miracles.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. Thats it.

Merit challenges envy.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.