Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact -- it is silence which isolates.

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Dejan Stojanovic

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Alfred Jarry

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

Salma Hayek

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Carla Gugino

When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.

Ray Blanton

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Charles Spurgeon

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

We are great fools: He has spent his life in idleness. We say, I have done nothing today. Really, have you not lived? This is not only the most fundamental but the most illustrious of your occupations

Michel de Montaigne, Of Experien

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.

George Eliot