The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

Don Marquis

I love to read aloud.

Cornelia Funke

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad

Thomas Carlyle

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

Jonathan Lethem

You cannot conceive of the many without the one.

Plato

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Robert Kocharian

Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

Larry Hagman

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny.

Mindy Kaling

Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.

King Hussein I

Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.

Harold Evans