He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

Padma Lakshmi

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

I'm not sure history has ended.

John Bolton

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.

Andre Dubus

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

Edith Hamilton

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

Arthur C. Clarke

If an organization is narrow in the images that it directs toward its own actions, then when it examines what it has said, it will see only bland displays. This means in turn that the organization won't be able to make much interesting sense of what's going on or of its place in it. That's not a trivial outcome, because the kind of sense that an organization makes of its thoughts and of itself has an effect on its ability to deal with change. An organization that continually sees itself in novel images, images that are permeated with diverse skills and sensitivities, thereby is equipped to deal with altered surroundings when they appear.

Karl Weick

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

Parker Posey

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Emily Dickinson

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Mark Caine

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

Mike Ditka