It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

It's very important to take care of yourself. Everyone's lives are so busy. Take at least an hour a day to recharge and do whatever makes you better. For grown-ups, whether it's a spa, sitting in a park with a book, or coffee, take time for yourself.

Ana Ivanovic

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise.

H. G. Wells

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

Kurt Vonnegut

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.

Joan Baez

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

John W. Gardner

In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe.

Mariana Fulger

Making peace, I have found, is much harder than making war.

Gerry Adams

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

Roger Zelazny