The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution color pixels.If you stand back far enough it looks good.Come any closer and the glaring approximations overtake all semblance of the original.Justice should be viewable under the microscope, not from a telescope.And for that it needs to be based not on law but on truth.

Vera Nazarian

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.

Grace (Patricia) Kelly

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Ryan Tedder

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Kurt Vonnegut

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. R. Ambedkar

Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With the disappearance of God the Ego moves forward to become the sole divinity.

Dorothee Sölle, The Silent Cry:

Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.

Cat Stevens

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Ellen Hopkins

Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.

David Ogilvy