I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.

I really think in the Commonwealth of Europe you should have Russia. I listed a hundred countries that would be in it and it would then be a really European United Nations.

When you think of the number of men in the world who hate each other, why, when two men love each other, does the church split?

O Lord, Sula,” she cried, “girl, girl, girlgirlgirl.” It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

Now he knew why he loved her so. Without ever leaving the ground, she could fly. 'There must be another one like you,' he whispered to her. 'There's got to be at least one more woman like you.

For now he knew what Shalimar knew: If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

Sifting daylight dissolves the memory, turns it into dust motes floating in light.

The loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

You got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.

I don't listen to anybody's full record anymore and when I did, I don't think I listened to the whole record. I'm sorry, and I don't care who it is, if it's the Beatles, I can't listen to an hour and a half of anybody straight so I guess that's just my personal preference.

I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

You never know what's going to happen sometimes, or what you think's going to happen never happens, or when you least expect it, the Santana record comes along and just blows up.

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Eddie Izzard is wonderful, I think, but I've only seen that one HBO special he did. He's one of the few people who talk about stuff other than girlfriends and relationships and flatulence and genitalia. There are very few of them who actually talk about real stuff.

I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.