The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Maureen Forrester

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

Alexander Pope

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

Dr. Paul Tournier

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature

Charles Dickens

My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

Tyra Banks

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!

Elaine Sherman, Book of Divine I

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered

Jane Austen

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Robert H. Schuller

That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.

William Shakespeare

Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity, and then there was none.

Gerald Barzan