America preaches integration and practices segregation.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Oscar Wilde

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Robert Sternberg

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

Orson Welles

People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.

Jodi Picoult

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Hedy Lamarr

Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Samuel Johnson

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Russell Baker

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

Bayazid AlBistami

Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.

Harlan Miller