The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Camille Anna Paglia

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Vera Farmiga

The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

Joseph Addison

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Virchand Gandhi

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

John Podhoretz

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

I wake up every morning singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner.'

Terry McAuliffe

Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.

Aretha Franklin

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

George Santayana

We must have a citizenship less concerned about what the government can do for it and more anxious about what it can do for the nation.

Warren Harding, at the 1916 Repu