For is not a Symbol ever, to him who has eyes for it, some dimmer or clearer revelation of the God-like?

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

P. J. O'Rourke

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Enid Bagnold

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

Noam Chomsky

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Frances Rodman

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

William Glasser

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

Rafer Johnson

We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.

Thomas Mann

There’s about as much educational benefit studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary.

Jacques Cousteau

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

...but most of all he liked to listen to stories of real life. He smiled gleefully as he listened to such stories, putting in words and asking questions, all aiming at bringing out clearly the moral beauty of the action of which he was told. Attachments, friendships, love, as Pierre understood them, Karataev had none, but he loved and lived on affectionate terms with every creature with whom he was thrown in life, and especially so with man- not with any particular man, but with the men that happened to be before his eyes.But his life, as he looked at it, had no meaning as a separate life. It only had meaning as part of a whole, of which he was at all times conscious.

Leo Tolstoy

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

Candice Bergen