But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Madeleine L'Engle

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Mitch Daniels

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

Horace

The finiteness, the dependency, and the insufficiency of man

Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

I was walking around legally blind. Now I have 20-20 vision. I can't believe I spent so many years blurry, but I think that coincides with how I was feeling. Now I notice if people are watching me, but I also smile right back if someone waves, which helps.

Nicole Kidman

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Joseph Addison

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Mark Twain

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

George Steiner

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

Trey Parker

Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

Edwin C. Bliss