And regardless of the fact that in this country, certainly in the arts, we treat comedy as a second-class citizen, I've never thought of it that way. I've always thought it to be important. The last time I looked, the Greeks were holding up two masks. I've always thought of it not only as having equal value, but as the craft of it, being funny.

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

Cat Stevens

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Aldous Huxley

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

will.i.am

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Thomas Szasz

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Napoleon Hill

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

Lisa Kleypas

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Doug Horton

One thing I've very quickly learned is that if you wake up every morning worrying about what's in the press, you would go completely and utterly potty.

Nick Clegg

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

Marco Rubio

My husband Rhashan reminds me of my father because he's got great strength of character.

Olivia Williams

But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels.

Dierks Bentley

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. Every summit seems an exaggeration. Climbing wearies. The steepnesses take away one's breath; we slip on the slopes, we are hurt by the sharp points which are its beauty; the foaming torrents betray the precipices, clouds hide the mountain tops; mounting is full of terror, as well as a fall. Hence, there is more dismay than admiration. People have a strange feeling of aversion to anything grand. They see abysses, they do not see sublimity; they see the monster, they do not see the prodigy.

Victor Hugo