"The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject."

“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.”

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“'Curio vult advisari,' as the lawyers say; which means, 'Let us have another glass, and then we can think about it.'”

“Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.”

Source : "Interview Issue: Dan Savage, Jane Lynch on 'It Gets Better,' Gay Bullying, 'Glee'". Interview with Jessica Bennett, www.newsweek.com. December 20, 2010.

“The book is man's best invention so far.”

Source : Carolina Maria de Jesus (2005). “Beyond All Pity”

“Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!”

“The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings. and in this exploration of the realm of places, people and things, contrasts and relationships, Callahan is no respecter of conventional technical formula or code. His delicate sense of pattern is an integral part of his photography and not a thing by itself.”

“We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.”