Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

W. H. Auden

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

Mary Catherine Bateson

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as a whole.

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

Hillary Clinton

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Seamus Heaney

A budding fashionista even at four, I would capture the little lizards and latch them, still living, onto my earlobes as earrings. Most girls wouldn't touch them, I thought they completed the outfit.

Mireya Mayor

The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Friedrich von Schiller

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz

Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

William Allan

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Plutarch

Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman.

Rob Lowe