We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

Was George Orwell right about 1984?

Steve Jobs

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

Salma Hayek

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Maude Adams

What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death.

Katha Upanishad

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Victor Hugo

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

J. B. Priestley

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Brigitte Nielsen

I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again.

Maria Sharapova

I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

Barry Sheene

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- while simulating a triumphant march forward -- than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament?

Alexander Herzen

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Dean Koontz