When we are bored, when we are out of tune, when we have little worries, it clears our feelings and changes our mood if we can get in touch with the beauty of the natural world.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary A. Ward

It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

Vaclav Klaus

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

David Leigh Eddings

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Barbara Streisand

I have a feeling this is destiny. On the eve of her third marriage

Christie Brinkley

The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.

Luise Rainer

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

Robert Frost