Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Penelope Cruz

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Samuel Johnson

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

Proverb

If on the other hand we found even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread it, who would notice, and object, if a single word were changed, then, however little we could see in it ourselves and however it was despised by our friends and colleagues, we should not date to put it beyond the pale.

C.S. Lewis

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Barack Obama

Just because they're a story doesn't mean they're not real.

Heather Bouwman

To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.

Ernest Hemingway

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

Jeff Koons

To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am.

Andre B. Buruch

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

Marilynne Robinson

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Florence L. Barclay