In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.

Portia de Rossi

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao Tzu

A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.

Albert Camus

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

We loved in infinite spaces, forgetting here The breasts that were lit with life and the lips so near; Till the wizard willows waved in the wind and drew Me away from the fulness of love and down to you.

George William Russell

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

Voltaire

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Robert Half

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Thomas Jefferson

O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!

Ben Jonson

If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

Aulis Sallinen