There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

Isadora Duncan

Theres an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Martin Sheen

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.

Orson Scott Card

If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Norman Ralph Augustine

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

John Maynard Keynes

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

Lea Michele

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

Alton Brown

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Joyce Carol Oates