Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Leo Buscaglia

The U.N. Population Fund has a maternal health program in some Cameroon hospitals, but it doesn't operate in this region. It's difficult to expand, because President Bush has cut funding.

Nicholas D. Kristof

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Robert H. Schuller

Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.

Gil Stern

Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

Elizabeth Gilbert

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

Melissa Bean

I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

Ed Rendell

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Sir Thomas Beecham

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Booth Tarkington

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Laurence Sterne

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

Diane Kruger

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.