I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lee Iacocca

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

Tori Amos

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

Og Mandino

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Ernest Hemingway

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

David K. Shipler

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Ambrose Bierce

I hate art auctions.

Jerry Saltz

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

Gayle Forman

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Walter Pater

To leave a sting within a brother's heart.

Edward Young