I have never seen a man as fond of virtue as of women.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Ernst Fischer

To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.

William Cullen Bryant

I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Elton John

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Robert A. Heinlein

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Oscar Wilde

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

Scott Walker

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.

Channing Tatum

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I'm doing what I do best.

Giada De Laurentiis

Every dogma has its day.

Abraham Rotstein

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius Caecus

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Arthur Schopenhauer