Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

King Abdullah II

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

Johann von Goethe

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

Mitt Romney

I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

Sigmund Freud

I never was a great Thatcher fan, and it wasn't a sad day in my life when she resigned.

Jim Broadbent

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.

Tori Amos

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.

Jackie Kennedy

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Walter Scott

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

Friedrich von Schiller

I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game.

Emily Giffin