I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Edwin Louis Cole

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Malala Yousafzai

Well! Evil to some is always good to others.

Jane Austen

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Beverly Cleary

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn't present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you can get a sort of frisson of wickedness from them. And the best combination of those, I think, I describe him in the book, is/was General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, who I met in the late 1970s when the death squad war was at its height, and his fellow citizens were disappearing off the street all the time. And he was, in some ways, extremely banal. I describe him as looking like a human toothbrush. He was a sort of starch, lean officer with a silly mustache, and a very stupid look to him, but a very fanatical glint as well. And, if I'd tell you why he's now under house arrest in Argentina, you might get a sense of the horror I felt as I was asking him questions about all this. He's in prison in Argentina for selling the children of the rape victims among the private prisoners, who he kept in a personal jail. And I don't know if I've ever met anyone who's done anything as sort of condensedly horrible as that.

Christopher Hitchens

I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.

Anish Kapoor

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

Diane Lane