If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Richard Bach

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese culture fascinates me: the food, the dress, the manners and the traditions. It's the travel experience that has moved me the most.

Roman Coppola

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

William Hazlitt

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jean de la Bruyere

Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number.

Peter Arno

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Beauty could be defined simply as 'that which pleases.' But there is another aspect to art, and that... is the sublime. Like the mushroom cloud of the atom bomb, or the vastness of space as projected to us by satellite... the greatness of the experience goes beyond your ethical and aesthetic judgment, cutting you free from the binding ego of yourself. With the diminishment of your ego, the less there is of you, the more you see the sublime.

Jen Wang

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Kristin Chenoweth

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Phil Collins