The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

Carolyn Maloney

The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

Daniel Goleman

I don't think it's a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef's a fat pig.

Gordon Ramsay

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves.

Abraham Lincoln

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

Lord Northcliffe

I love to collect modern art.

Maria Sharapova

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Cyril Connolly

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Robert Downey, Jr.

There is a land that I can go toWhen I have time to rest.All the people I love are thereAnd those who love me best.

Marianne Faithfull, opening lyri

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Jessica Savitch

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle