To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.

Arthur Murphy

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

Oscar Niemeyer

All I can tell you is to have the relationship that's good for you.

Cath Crowley

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science.

Loyd Auerbach

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound.

Kahlil Gibran

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Giulio Andreotti

Yes, Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes, they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.

Thomas Frank

Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.

Bob Woodward

If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

Tony Campolo

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Patrick Rafter