Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love --to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245)

Nicole Krauss

So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor.

Percy Wynham Lewis

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

George Jean Nathan

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

Danica McKellar

Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.

Robert Hall

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Conrad Hall

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

Malala Yousafzai

On a couple of occasions I've shocked myself. Pet Sematery was appalling when it first came out on to the page.

Stephen King

Take the tone of the company you are in.

Lord Chesterfield

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Oscar Wilde