Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

I can be bought, but not bored.

I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing!

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

...and rout the magical mystical moonlight with fierce proof of its own greater power to light, to heat, to make everything known.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller.

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding