Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

E. M. Forster

I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.

Elizabeth Taylor

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

John Conyers

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Felix Adler

The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

Angela Carter

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Professor William Buechner

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

Sidney Sheldon

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Thomas Jefferson

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.

Gutzkow

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Mark Strand

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

Jonathan Sacks