Gratitude enhances your ability to see beauty. It's like seeing beauty in HD.

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

James Rouse

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Golda Meir

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.

Orson Scott Card

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.

Albert Schweitzer

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Alexander McQueen

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing.

Emily Watson

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Freddie Mercury

Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Marc Forgione

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:--Politics without principle.--Wealth without work.--Commerce without morality.--Pleasure without conscience.--Education without character.--Science without humility.--Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.

Erica Jong

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Sir Winston Churchill