Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.

Throughout human history beauty has been seen as a gift from God, but Mom had another notion; she thought that beauty could be earned through self-knowledge. It may be a revolutionary idea, but it has offered me great comfort.

Ruth Reichl

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

George W. Bush

I love improvisation.

Nora Dunn

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Gerald R. Ford

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

James Taylor

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

Philip Roth

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Claudius Claudianus

A physicist that I know commented that many other scientific disciplines, such as geology, anthropology, astronomy, are also challenged by biblical fundamentalism, but their people seem to be able to get on with their work without worrying unduly. Only Darwinians seem thrown into a frenzy that sends them running to litigation and demanding censorship. His explanation was that it's a rival religion.

James P. Hogan

I simply do not distinguish between work and play.

Mary Oliver

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

Rhona Mitra

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Bertrand Russell