There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Yes, women, and men, have to be open to love, because if we're not open then there's no way for us to find happiness. But you can be open to it and still have no control over when it's going to happen.

Debra Messing

The one thing that I'm in charge of in this wedding is the food.

Rob Mariano

People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role.

Mstislav Rostropovich

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

St. John Chrysosatom

The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return

Pir Vilayat Khan

I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth.

Miguel de Cervantes

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Samuel Richardson

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Benjamin Disraeli

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Dennis Weaver

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.

Paul Dudley White

Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Pablo Picasso

When people go to work, they don

Lee J. Colan, Passionate Perform