Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Joyce Maynard

Love came down at Christmas; love all lovely, love divine; love was born at Christmas, stars and angels gave the sign.

Christina G. Rossetti

It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.

Christopher Lambert

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

Neal Boortz

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Cri

Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.

Ben Okri

If you write it down, you can make it happen.

Staness Jonekos

?Kalganov ran back into the front hall, sat down in a corner, bent his head, covered his face with his hands, and began to cry. He sat like that and cried for a long time--cried as though he were still a little boy and not a man of twenty... 'What are these people, what sort of people can there be after this!' he kept exclaiming incoherently, in bitter dejection, almost in despair. At that moment he did not even want to live in the world. 'Is it worth it, is it worth it!' the grieved young man kept exclaiming.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Flatley

But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.

Isabelle Adjani

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Barbara Streisand