I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Yoko Ono

There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.

John Steinbeck

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Ingmar Bergman

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Adolf Loos

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Jerry Brown

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The most truthful part of a newspaper is the advertisements

Thomas Jefferson

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

O. Henry

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

Jodi Picoult

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

James A. Michener

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

Richard Dawkins

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Ray Kroc