I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

Sir Theodore Martin, Said at rea

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

Leon Trotsky

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Günter Brus

I believe in love, children and being a good person.

Leighton Meester

I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.

Jane Campion

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James M. Baldwin

When the heart has acquired stillness, it will look upon the heights and depths of knowledge , and the intellect, once quieted, will be given to hear wonderful things from God.

Hesychios the Martyr

Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.

Evelyn Waugh

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Sally Ride

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Philip Glass

Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.

Myriam Miedzian