There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

Jerry West

If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.

David Remnick

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

David Eagleman

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

George Sand

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Orlando A. Battista

Do you think we can be friends? I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. Probably not, but we can pretend.

Priya Ardis

In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves that some imperfect object of our love is perfection or we can love perfection, which is God.

Leo Tolstoy

They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

I'd like to feel that an advertiser gets something extra when they advertise with us - a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories.

Casey Kasum

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Jimmy Carter

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right

Mark Twain