Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Julie Taymor

I've always wanted to be a mom.

Holly Madison

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

Chris Rock

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Henry Miller

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Sydney J. Harris

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

Hatred -- The anger of the weak.

Alphonse Daudet

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.

Bashar al-Assad

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it -- but there is.

Olive Schreiner

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Kingsley Amis

You are the reason I don't want to die all the time.

Henry Rollins