No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

Soren Kierkegaard

If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.

Don Knuth

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Albert Camus

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Thomas Henry Huxley

All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.

Marguerite Young

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me.

Katie Price

So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Aaron Neville

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

Walter Cronkite

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity.

Lyman Abbott

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Gordon Ramsay

For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Dame Edith Sitwell