Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Paradise is Where I Am.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

George Smathers

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Anthony de Mello

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Christopher Hitchens

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

Don Williams, Jr

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.

Morgan Freeman

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Twyla Tharp

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Christopher Lasch

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Robert Bresson

I'm kind of a homebody. My husband says I like to just stay home and do nothing, but that's just how I am.

Kristi Yamaguchi