Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

Since I've been in Playboy myself in Australia, I love it, and I think it's really empowering and positive towards women, which is not a view that many women hold.

Dannii Minogue

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Walt Whitman

The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

Camille Anna Paglia, From an art

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

The old know what they want the young are sad and bewildered.

Logan P. Smith

Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.

Martha Plimpton

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Mark Twain

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

Scott Walker

It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time???The youth gazed with great delight upon the beautiful face until he caught the maiden???s eye???The mysterious communication that is established across a hous

Nan Fairbrother

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

Jane Goodall