Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

Juan Goytisolo

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Madeleine Albright

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it

Denis Diderot

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

Carol Burnett

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Ariel Dorfman

At Christmas time I sat on Santa's lap. His fly was open ! Boy what a present he gave me !

Rodney Dangerfield

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I knew a girl that was so ugly that... They use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

Rodney Dangerfield

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

Alexander Pope

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

Heston Blumenthal

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to.

Truman Capote