That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

Barbara Cartland

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

Sara Blakely

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

Lewis H. Lapham

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

Michael Rapaport

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

John Stuart Mill

If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.

Imelda Marcos

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

John Michael Higgins

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

Lawrence S. Eagleburger

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Bob Keeshan

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

Paul Davies