Beauty is a simple passion, but, oh my friends, in the end you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Aldous Huxley

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Anita Hill

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

Jay-Z

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

Appearances are deceptive.

Aesop

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.

W. H. Auden

In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

Thomas Merton

I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

Betty White

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.

Stanislaus I

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Ivy Baker