Beauty is whatever gives joy.

No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell -- in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

Umberto Eco, The Island of the D

Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.

Jane Austen

Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.

Nicholas D. Kristof

No such thing as a man willing to be honest --that would be like a blind man willing to see.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword. To each affronting sot I meet, the word Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go, And pointed satire runs him through and through.

John Oldham, Satire upon a Print

'No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people.

Fidel Castro

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

Karen Armstrong

Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Marilyn Monroe

Our favorite holding period is forever.

Warren Buffett