Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

Rebecca Romijn

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Karen Thompson Walker

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George Washington Carver

Reputation is what men and women think of us. Character is what God and the angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

We've got to simplify, pull back all these layers of supposed complexity , and get down to the essentials. If we want people to engage with government, we should use the same tools that are getting them engages with companies and institutions in private life. If we want people to care about political issues, we should give them a way to understand and get involved in them.

Gavin Newsom

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Jodi Picoult

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

Paul Berg

Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Erica Jong

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.

Barry J. Farber

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Karel Capek