Is it really so important to be different?

We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Yet the great “Why?” always at the center of the little “whats” and “hows” that makes religions into mythologies is often stronger in dead temples than in living.

Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

What is life, " he asked the maiden, "without love? I would ratherhave this one night with you than another thousand years.

We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.

America is, is no longer, uh, what it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was, uh, and I say to myself, uh, I don't want that future, uh, for my children.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.

[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.

I studied political science and international relations and had the intention of becoming a journalist or work in foreign affairs. I had no intention of making a film.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?