When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

J.K. Rowling

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor.

Nelson Demille

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Sharon Anthony Bower

Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do -- to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

Stephen King

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Indira Gandhi

Everyone knows in the industry that when these great roles come up, every two years, there's a huge number of people up for them. I'm not one of those top five females that can personally finance any film.

Joely Richardson

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

John W. Gardner

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.

Ernest Istook

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

Jeff Foxworthy

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Virginia Woolf