Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

Susan Sontag

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Ronald Reagan

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Alan Cohen

If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Isiah Thomas

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Rebecca Harding Davis

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.

Thomas C. Haliburton

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Pierre Bourdieu

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Ernest Hemingway

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.

Bertrand Russell

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Macaulay Culkin