Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Elton Trueblood

Great intellects are skeptical.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to deal justly and equitably with your subjects, be straightforward and firm, turning neither to the right hand nor to the left, but always following what is just, and upholding the cause of the poor till the truth be made clear.

Louis IX of France

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.

Samuel Johnson

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

Naima Adedapo

Good people left me breathless and wondering. How had they got that way? How good were they, anyway? How would it feel to be good? Then I hit middle age and suddenly I wanted to be a better person and to know that I was living a good life.

Judith O'Reilly

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Kahlil Gibran

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

Lauren Conrad

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Camille Paglia

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark -- that is critical genius.

Billy Wilder