The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution.

Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise - all are now the norm, often edging out much else.

Jerry Saltz

I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

Margaret Thatcher

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Xavier Becerra

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Oscar Niemeyer

Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity.

Jean-Baptiste Say

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Fay Wray

When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity!

Timothy Pina

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Victor Hugo

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

Auguste Rodin

Asymmetrie [macht] Menschen unglücklich.

J.M. Coetzee

A life I have lived and have found just that... life.

M.J. Chrisman

Our souls sparkle brightly with creative energy, our beings are as complex as the universe, and at the same time we help make up a higher body of energy.

Stephen Richards