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“You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.”
Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013. 
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“As for feminism, I am a womanist more than I'm a feminist.”
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“The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.”
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“The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.”
Source : James David Barber (1992). “The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House”
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“Why should thinkers mock the simple pieties of the people?”
Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.132, Oxford University Press
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“Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.”
Source : Charles Chatfield, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Barton Perry (1972). “ETHICS OF WAR”, Dissertations-G
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“That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.”
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“Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.”
