"There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes."

“Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

“Manliness has been defined as assertion of the self. Womanliness has been defined as the nurturing of selves other than our own - even if we quite lose our own in the process. (Women are supposed to find in this loss their true fulfillment.) But every individual person is born both to assert herself or himself and to act out a sympathy for others trying to find themselves - in Christian terms, meant to love one's self as one loves others ... Jesus never taught that we should split up that commandment - assigning 'love yourself' to men, 'love others' to women. But society has tried to.”

Source : Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

“Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.”

“He was one of the few political leaders I have ever met whose public speeches revealed more than his private conversations. [On Ronald Reagan]”

“Christ was either the grandest, guiltiest of impostors, by a marvelous and most subtle refinement of wickedness, or He was God manifest in the flesh.”

Source : Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

“I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.”

“It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.”