To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

Buchi Emecheta

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

Jerry Saltz

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance

Aldous Huxley

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Socrates

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

Edward W. Howe

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Henry David Thoreau

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Pink

So many schools are getting rid of music programs and it's really sad because I know that when I started singing and stuff it was something that I always wanted to do and I never believed in myself to be able to do it.

Hilary Duff

I'm not going to pretend that I am the best thing in their life and they have to be totally loyal.

Graham Coxon

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Hermann Hesse