India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

Frank Auerbach

Fear God, yes, but don't be afraid of Him.

J. A. Spender

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers,' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

Jane Seymour

The firmest proof that Marxism is not science but an ideology is Marxism's attitude to the experience of the real communist (or socialist) societies.

Aleksandr Zinovyev

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

Loren Eiseley

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

Pat Riley

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

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

Robert Louis Stevenson

All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

John Green

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Chinese Proverb