"The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress."

“Nations, not least America, retain full command of their national forces.”

“You can't legislate stupidity.”

“For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the world and themselves were of religious origin. There is no religion that is not a cosmology at the same time that it is a speculation upon divine things. If philosophy and the sciences were born of religion, it is because religion began by taking the place of the sciences and philosophy.”

“The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up by devoting ourselves to the study of the actual state of the living world, and to those monuments of the past in which the relics of the animate creation of former ages are best preserved and least mutilated by the hand of time.”

Source : Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation”, p.470

“If the Administration does nothing, high gasoline prices will continue to increasingly burden our economy, taking millions of dollars out of the hands of families and putting it straight into the pockets of OPEC.”

“If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history.”

“I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.”

Source : "My City, My Life" Interview, edition.cnn.com. May 3, 2008.

“Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.”