Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

Boz Scaggs

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

Dejan Stojanovic

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Jane Smiley

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

John Bacon

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

Robert Benchley

Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.

Brian Aldiss

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Stephen King

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Frida Kahlo

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Thomas Carlyle

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Ann Bancroft