The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

Benjamin Franklin

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

John Morley

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde

The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Edward Young

I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

Shannen Doherty

The antonyms for dreams are actuality, certainty, existence, fact, reality, substance, and truth.

James Dye

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.

Wim Wenders

Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.

Isaac Asimov