If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service

Steve Jobs

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Christian Bale

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Source Unknown

they are all silly and ignorant like other girls; but Lizzy has something more of quickness than her sisters.

Jane Austen

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

Catherine Deneuve

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

Thomas Carlyle

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people's motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches waiting to be vivisected. If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Bliss Carman

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Irwin Edman, The Uses of Philoso