History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I want you. But I’m scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.

I've lost my faith in science.

Become mindful that remaining in a conflict is a choice.

Human beings are of such nature that they should have not only material facilities but spiritual sustenance as well. Without spiritual sustenance, it is difficult to get and maintain peace of mind.

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.