Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

Klaus Fuchs

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Bette Davis

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Benjamin Franklin

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

Victor Hugo

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

John Harington

The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.

Tara Lipinski

I don't want a huge wedding. I don't want it to be some huge spectacle.

Kristin Cavallari

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness... they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.

Soren Kierkegaard