I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

At the fruit of existence, there is a single concept of anonymity. This unknown concept is well known however. All one has to do is simply look behind the mirror for the answer. Yet, the answer won't come until the right question is asked. Because the illusions of reality are dressed in endless reflections, the blind will continue to be guided by the blind. The unknown concept is recognized to those who have tasted the fruit of existence, and as distant as the woman trying to grab Heaven from the reflection of an empty pond.

Lionel Suggs

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

Timothy White

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Henry David Thoreau

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

Live always in the best company when you read.

Sydney Smith

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

Cassandra Clare

You were meant for me, Poppy. I can feel it in my fingertips when I touch you.

Tess Oliver

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

Leila Sales

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Meryl Streep

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Paul Ryan