The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Mahatma Gandhi

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

Julia Barr

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Katharine Hepburn

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Kurt Vonnegut

Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.

Melissa Bean

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange

Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.

Gerald Massey

When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, Boss you can't do that.

Charles Franklin Kettering

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Mark Twain