What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.

Jonathan Glancey

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Jodi Picoult

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leonard Bernstein

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

Don Roff

There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.

Edward Steichen

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Simon Mainwaring

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

John Piper

Every human being is spirit and truth is the self-activity of appropriation.

Søren Kierkegaard

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford

The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

Proverb