For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.

John Drinkwater

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein, The Unanswere

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

Padma Lakshmi

There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes - stop boring!

George Jessel

The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Ambrose Bierce

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone

William Shakespeare

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Bob Marley

At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.

Gelsey Kirkland

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

King Abdullah II

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

Woodrow Wilson

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More