Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

T. Scott McLeod

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides. In this case it certainly wasn't.

Thomas Gold

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Courteney Cox

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

Kenzo Tange

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Hu Shih

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Antoine Rivarol

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

T. S. Eliot

She didn't know it couldn't be done, so she went ahead and did it.

Mary S. Almanac

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Paul Muldoon

It is well that war is so terrible, else we should grow too fond of it.

General Robert E. Lee, at the ba

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.

Stevie Nicks