The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Barbara Ehrenreich

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner

In great things it is enough even to have willed.

Sextus Propertius

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

James Lovelock

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Bryant H. McGill

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

William Ellery Channing

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

...and your hair is much too long, Ronald, for a moment I thought you were Ginevra.

J.K. Rowling

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am.

Tina Turner

Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.

Les Baxter

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Thomas A. Edison