It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

Angela Carter

God is in the details.

Mies Van der Rohe, "New York Tim

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Joyce Meyer

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.

William Shakespeare

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Brigitte Bardot

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Samuel Johnson

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.

Brian Moore

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]

Terry Pratchett

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

Michael Mandelbaum