Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

Cassandra Clare

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have a wedding.

Elizabeth Gilbert

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.

Eva Amurri

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen Leacock

Income tax time is when you test your powers of deduction.

Shelby Friedman

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

Harold Rosenberg

Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more.

Leo Tolstoy

What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.

Tony Campolo

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Jack Kemp

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Robert Anton Wilson

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Edgar Degas