You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

Ellen Barkin

You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

James Mcneill Whistler

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

Barbara Kingsolver

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

Theresa May

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Joseph De Maistre

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

Kate Millet

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

P. T. Barnum

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Floyd Abrams