Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

Robert Collier

The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

Karl Rove

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

Orson Welles

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

E. W. Howe

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

William Ellery Channing

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Ivan Illich

I am a bit of a hopeless romantic. I really do have a faith and a belief in love, and when I love, I love hard.

Melanie Fiona

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

James Joyce

It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?

Princess of Wales Diana

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Stephen King

How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche