Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Calvin Klein

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword

Samuel Johnson

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Benjamin Franklin

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

Lydia M. Child

We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

Fay Weldon

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction!

Philip Pullman

Virtue is too often merely local.

Samuel Johnson