Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Julia Roberts

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Rupert Murdoch

Por lo demás, la literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

Jorge Luis Borges

Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Mike Rounds

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

Max Beckmann

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Earl Nightingale

Civility is but a desire to receive civility, and to be esteemed polite.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

H. G. Wells

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad