It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

Sarah Bernhardt, The Memoirs of

Success has always been a great liar.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.

Andy Warhol

Heart of my heart, were it more,More would be laid at your feet.Buck Mulligan, upon giving the old milk maid a coin

James Joyce, Ulysses

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Henry Ward Beecher

Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

Maya Angelou

Off the rack solutions, like bargain basement dresses, never fit anyone.

Francoise Giroud

I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

Virginia Woolf

The human heart can go to the lengths of God. Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;The thunder is the thunder of the floes, The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.Thank God our time is now when wrongComes up to face us everywhere,Never to leave us till we takeThe longest stride of soul we humans ever took.Affairs are now soul size.The enterprise Is exploration into God.Where are you making for? It takes So many thousand years to wake, But will you wake for pity

Christopher Fry, A Sleep of Pris

What is rational is actual, and what is actual is rational.

G. W. F. Hegel

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Harry S. Truman