Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.

Mario Monti

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

Samuel Johnson

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Aristotle

Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance.

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All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error

Mahatma Gandhi

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

Naguib Mahfouz

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll

He who fears and doubts cannot make any progress either in the spiritual or worldly sphere. The mind is cramped. He alone is a hero, he alone attains greatness, who moves forward to realise the truth without caring whether the world is real or not.

Swami Adbhutananda

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women.

Teri Garr

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.

Eliot Spitzer