The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that, one day, worn out from the sheer effort of moving and living, he had stretched out on the plain and fallen into a sleep so profound that centuries passed between heartbeats.

Neil Gaiman

I love Italian opera -- it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

Ron Wyden

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.

Amos Bronson Alcott

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

Alphonse Daudet

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

Robert Brault

I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Jean Cocteau

Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.

Alexandre Vinet