When this old world gets me down and there's no love to be found I close my eyes and soon I find I'm in a playground in my mind Where the children laugh and the children play And we sing a song all day.

We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.

Jerry Saltz

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

Georges Bernanos

The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.

Lord Chesterfield

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Shirley Bassey

Recipes are important but only to a point. What's more important than recipes is how we think about food, and a good cookbook should open up a new way of doing just that.

Michael Symon

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Eric Hoffer

Come on, insisted Zaphod, I've found a way in.In? said Arthur in horror.Into the interior of the planet! An underground passage. The force of the whale's impact cracked it open, and that's where we have to go. Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself ...Marvin started his ironical humming again.Zaphod hit him and he shut up.With little shudders of disgust they all followed Zaphod down the incline into the crater, trying very hard not to look at its unfortunate creator.Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.

Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hikers

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Aristotle

The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude.

Source Unknown

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Manuel Puig

Every failure is a step to success.

William Whewell

What is a Communist? One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.

Ebenezer Elliot