There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Sarah Schulman

But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.

Omar Bongo

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

George Eliot

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

You can't wait for the phone to ring. You have to ring them.

Lord Lew Grade

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Jon Meacham

There are much more terrible things than physical injury.

J.K. Rowling

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lead by example, not by instruction.

Jared Matthew Kessler

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.

Joseph Conrad, Chance

The greatest tragedy in the world is a divided church. We must come together. So don't start talking about doctrine, because if you do, we shall be divided. But there is one thing we can do. We may not be able to agree about doctrine, but we can always pray together.

Lloyd Jones, Authentic Christian

In my view, relationship movies never get old because humanity will never not be confounded by their relationships.

Zoe Lister-Jones