When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

Chad Harbach

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Mary Baker Eddy

We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

Jennifer Granholm

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Dana Reinhardt

Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Frank Luntz

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

Donna Mills

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

Valentino Garavani

What you are doing rings so loudly in my ears that I can't hear what you're saying.

Source Unknown

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Todd Gitlin

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

Marilyn Monroe