I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.

There is a real vulgarity in the way women dress at the moment. They show off too much and try too hard. They don't understand where the line is between sexy and vulgar. I know where that line is.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

To build a great company which is a CEO's job sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation attention perseverance and industry.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Who knows for what we live and struggle and die? Wise men write many books in words too hard to understand. But this the purpose of our lives the end of all our struggle is beyond all human wisdom.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous wedding obsessed boy crazy fashion focused sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women comically portrayed who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

I'd been a wedding singer through college but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad I thought 'Oh God if this is all I do I'll never be able to live with myself.'

I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras not on my opposition to the Contra war.

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines soldiers buddies. I'm not naive and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

War continues to divide people to change them forever and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts whether committed by foe or friend.

People didn't have the political guts to stand up against an American war.