Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.

Jodi Picoult

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Mitt Romney

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Khalil Gibran

The key to education is the experience of beauty.

Friedrich Schiller

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

John Berryman

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

Harvey Korman

There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Booker T. Washington

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

Kedar Joshi

There are a good many books, are there not, my boy? said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling.A great number, sir, replied Oliver; I never saw so many.You shall read them if you behave well, said the old gentleman kindly; and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, - that is, in some cases, because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James