There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

Yitzhak Shamir

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

Anne Lamott

I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

Chris Kirkpatrick

Complaining is a complete waste of one's energy. Those who complain the most accomplish the least.

Robert Tew

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Aristotle

I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.

Wole Soyinka

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

Jose Bergamin

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.

Brian O'Driscoll

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Marlene Dietrich

In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.

Harvey Cushing