Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.

Thomas Traherne

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Shania Twain

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

Paulo Coelho

Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

James Baldwin

Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.

Henrik Ibsen

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

Kenneth L. Pike

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

C. S. Lewis

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...

Richard Milhous Nixon

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Samuel Butler