Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

Drew Barrymore

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Frank Sinatra

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

Thomas Mann

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Matt Damon

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

Toba Beta

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

Marcus Valerius Martial

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

Naguib Mahfouz

To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Marian Wright Edelman

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Tobias Wolff, 'In Pharaoh's Army

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Kahlil Gibran