My mother told me that truth is like my skin, a beautiful, protective covering, and the things that people say or do can be easily changed or discarded. She told me truth comes from the heart.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Mary McLeod Bethune

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Neil Gaiman

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Mark Twain

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.

Richard Holmes

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

Ang Lee

When Tony was madly in love with me, his relationship with Vanessa Redgrave was ending.

Jeanne Moreau

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Vincent McNabb, God's Way of Mer

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Denis Waitley

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Proverb

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

James A. Michener, attributed