Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

I am all about caring. I have always been like that.

Princess of Wales Diana

Nature is a petrified magic city.

Novalis

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Samuel Johnson

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

Zora Neale Hurston

He that has the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

James Howell

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

T. S. Eliot

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

John Ruskin

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

George Bernard Shaw

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Cy Coleman

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Henry Van Dyke

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Maggie Gallagher