Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

Christopher Hitchens

He whom the gods love dies young.

Plautus

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

Madonna

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

Thomas E. Lawrence

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

Chuck Close

I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Steve Maraboli

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.

Christopher Dodd

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Helmut Jahn

Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.

Carla Gugino