To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Robert Redford

My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.

Rachael Ray

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

James Weldon Johnson

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees

Benjamin Franklin

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion.

Roberto Cavalli

If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

Lauryn Hill

The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

William Osler

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

Olivia De Havilland

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before

Jane Austen