Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire

All humanity is passion without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

I really love laughing.

Maya Rudolph

The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Nancy Astor

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Sidney Howard

I love to play bid whist as much as I love football.

Emmitt Smith

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Peter Guber

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Eckhart Tolle

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Doug Larson

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Lou Holtz

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

Jerry Saltz

We are all Romeos looking for our Juliet, but never finding her.

Rae Hachton