"The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself."

“power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.”

“It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain lights of their own, a number of them together will show complicated forms of social behavior...”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.33, Da Capo Press

“Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.”

“Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.”

“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'”

“Personally I get so much of my inspiration from women in other countries, so I don't feel like American women are the leaders and I don't agree with the notion that Americans can accomplish more or do more. But I do think that what we can uniquely do here in America is mobilize and galvanize a lot of these ideas and resources. It's a war of ideas. We, Islamic women, are very well supported in this country by institutions, academic and nonprofit, that are already in the field endorsing women's rights and tolerance. The women in other communities have been the pioneers in this work.”

Source : "Will the Democrats Become Part of the Problem?". www.informationclearinghouse.info. November 9, 2006.

“No food or drug will ever do for you what a fresh supply of oxygen will.”

“Just the slightest turn toward the inside is a very big thing.”