Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true, and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes -- our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around.

G. K. Chesterton

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

Rachael Ray

Photographers never have much incentive to show the world as it is.

William Leith

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Victor Hugo

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

George MacDonald

Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us. Now we realize that they were false. But this return cannot be made without pain, because we have been away for a long time and feel that we are strangers in out own land. It will take some time to find the friends who also left, and the places where our roots and treasures lie. But this will happen.

Paulo Coelho

My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.

Barbara Corcoran

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles Mengel Allen

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

Nikolai Berdyaev

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Emma Bonino

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

Experimenting with drugs is like target practice where your head is the bull

Michael Josephson