Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

A dog has the soul of a philosopher.

Plato

The miserable have no other medicine but hope.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Charles Montesquieu

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.

George V. Higgins

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

Anita Brookner

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Tadao Ando

Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.

Leo Rosten

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest.

Ludwig von Mises

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?

Kathleen Turner

Focusing is the great secret of power. If you want to use your full amount of focus, you must close down all other thought and direct your power of generating mental steam toward one outcome.

Stephen Richards

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.

Andrea Dworkin