Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn't tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the difference.

Jay Leno

There is no stopping place in this life--nor is there ever one for any person, no matter how far along the way one's gone.

Meister Eckhart

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Washington Irving

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

Paul Theroux

Excellence prospers in the absence of excuses.

Lorii Myers

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Alexander McCall Smith

It is true that there are exercises that can strengthen the 'muscle' that enable us to push back the bounds of acceptation. But these are relatively unimportant. The real problem is that we are trapped in misconceptions that always deceive us, as the matador's cape deceives the bull; that continue to deceive us a million times over the course of a lifetime. Wittgenstein once said that traditional philosophy causes a form of mental cramp, and that the aim of his philosophy was to remove this mental cramp, or to 'show the fly the way out of the bottle'. Our misconceptions involve the passive fallacy and notion that consciousness is a plane mirror that cannot lie about the world it reflects.

Colin Wilson

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence.

Dora Russell

I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

Paulo Coelho

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

Georgina Chapman