We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

George Orwell

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

George Orwell

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Devon Aoki

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

Jacques Pepin

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Quintus Curtius Rufus

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Yasser Arafat

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.

Kurt Vonnegut

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

Thomas Jefferson

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Tadao Ando