The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

Aldous Huxley

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

Amelia Earhart

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

Ilka Chase

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it.

Richard Milhous Nixon

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

H. G. Wells

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

It feels like a barbell. When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette

Marisa Tomei