The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

What is needed rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance is understanding fear that means watch it learn about it come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear not how to escape from it.

We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes the four of us became famous literally overnight but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.

We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy substance abuse and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances but all my family is there. It's what's inside it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

In my particular instance I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

If you have issues with family friends and people at work try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want. Think about what you can do so that you are happy with yourself - for instance eating right to feel great and energetic.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

People with deep faith and big hearts are concerned as I am about the circumstance that Ms. Schiavo is in. I want them to know I will do what I can but there are limits to what any particular person - irrespective of the title they currently hold - can do.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness my inner peace.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.

I get asked 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

When I'm writing I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived you know?

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

Women have talent and intelligence but due to social constraints and prejudices it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.