New York City is home to so many people from so many places and the uniqueness of it is that you never feel a foreigner. English is almost hardly ever heard in the subway. In fact, it's weird.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

John Dryden

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship, with all nationsentangling alliances with none.

Thomas Jefferson

You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.

Steve Irwin

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Leo Tolstoy

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Andre Malraux

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level.

Jerry Saltz

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

Gena Showalter

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.

Heston Blumenthal