A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

It's such a luxury to be able to be happy about going to work in the morning.

Joe Pantoliano

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

Robin Wright Penn

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

Albert Camus

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

Madeline Claire Franklin

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the knee plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent?

Julia Kavanagh

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Italo Calvino

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.

Kenneth Anger

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Al Lee

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Talcott Parsons