"Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition."

“The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”

Source : Twitter post from May 31, 2009

“Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.”

“The West is not in the West. It is a project, not a place.”

Source : Édouard Glissant (1989). “Caribbean discourse: selected essays”, Caraf Books

“I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.”

“With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.”

Source : Ariel Gore (2003). “Atlas of the Human Heart”, p.14, Seal Press

“You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.”

“I hadn't done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I'd fallen in love.”

“Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”