Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.

Henry Ford

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'

Claudia Schiffer

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

William Shenstone

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Aristotle

Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they werenight-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven.But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehowI put it all together and figured that the food God served causedmultiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

Jodi Picoult

I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

Barbara Amiel

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

Donna Lynn Hope

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

E.A. Bucchianeri

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

Alexis de Tocqueville

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick