Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Robin Hobb

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Thom Mayne

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

Linda M. Godwin

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

William Paley

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I must acknowledge an interest, or rather a dismay, in discussing this 'family memoir,' for from experience and observation I have come to regard the American Nuclear Family in the last 50 years as the enemy of individual determination, of personal autonomy--in short, as a disease.

Richard Howard, in a review of a

I have a best friend as a husband, and he is my number one supporter. He's a family man, and he's always giving back to God. That is what makes him a beautiful man. We're not perfect by any means, but that makes us beautiful as well. We're not afraid to say we're not perfect. We have our disagreements, but that comes along with marriage.

Tamera Mowry

there is no such thing as a harmless truth.

Gregory Nunn

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

Mary McLeod Bethune

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Kate Smith

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

Buddha