"I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement."

“Here in the UK, we've now got an evangelical television channel - it's the kind of thing that will be very familiar to everyone in the United States, especially if you've ever turned on your TV set on a Sunday morning, and seen one holy man after another, urging you to send money so that Jesus can buy a new cadillac. Apparently, Jesus can't save the world until he's been properly kitted out with a million-dollar mansion, and a private jet - some small print in the Gospels that we must have missed.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Pat Condell"/"In Jesus' Name", www.youtube.com. April 25, 2007.

“Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1904). “Hortus vitae : essays on the garden of life”

“The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.”

Source : Sporting News, May 12, 1970.

“Don't just cope, walk in victory.”

“I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.”

“Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense. A hill or tree cannot make a good painting just because it is a hill or tree. It is lines and colors put together so that they may say something.”

“The role of private equity as fiduciaries is certainly to make money.”

Source : "Two campaigns, two definitions of Romney's role at Bain" by Leigh Ann Caldwell, www.cbsnews.com. June 2, 2012.

“Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them.”