I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Alan Greenspan

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

Milan Kundera

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Sara Shepard

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Agatha Christie

I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.

Allen Ginsberg

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did.

Kristin Chenoweth

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

Robert Rodriguez

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Tavis Smiley

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Barbara Tuchman

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

Bertrand Russell