In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

Martha Beck

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Ivo Andric

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

James Hillman

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

Carlo Collodi

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.

Bernard Baruch

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

Bill Kurtis

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

Judd Rose

My buildings are more famous than me.

Jean Nouvel