Like the poet Po Chüyi, the Chinese scholar "utilized Confucianism to order his conduct, utilized Buddhism to cleanse his mind, and then utilized history, paintings, mountains, rivers, wine, music and song to soothe his spirit.

I am set to give my best. Yes, to win a medal for India in the Olympics is my dream. But I will go step by step; I will give my hundred percent and leave the rest to God.

You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

I used this as a force, saying to myself in the mirror, you should win for your father because he let you leave, because he believed in you

I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.

[Holmes is reeling from the doctored wine she gave him] I told you to let it breathe. Can you taste the comet?

Maggie Roswell - Richard, Sylvia Winfield, Helen Lovejoy, Princess Kashmir, Mary Bailey, Maude Flanders, Elizabeth Hoover, Mona Simpson, Luann Van Houten, Martha Quimby, Allison Taylor, Nana Sophie Mussolini, Shary Bobbins, Strawberry

Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Khusrau “was one of the first to offer his congratulations to the murderer whose hands were still red with the blood of his king, his uncle and his benefactor… The poet changed with changing time and turned with shifting wind.”

Don Sullivan as Chase Winstead

I make 50 cents for showing up … and the other 50 cents is based on my performance.

My definition of a "respected" man was one who had succeeded almost completely in hoodwinking people, but who was finally seen through by some omniscient, omnipotent person who ruined him and made him suffer a shame worse than death.

The last two decades have seen a vigorous revival in the political and social movements of Islamic inspiration… The movements aiming at cultural emancipation, independence and identity run parallel to and intertwine with the political and economic struggles waged by the people of underdeveloped countries’ (Page 5)