I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present.

John Ruskin

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Orson Scott Card

No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.

Marcelene Cox

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

Heidi Klum

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Charles Barkley

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Andre Gide

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

John D. Rockefeller

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

Orson Scott Card

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Oscar Wilde

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

Joseph Bean