And I wake up happy, baby, because I possess beauty and I own that beauty in all the forms it can take and the least important of those are physical.

Life in Britain had seemed like one long antechamber to a room that had too many barriers to entry; here in the USA it seemed to be true that if you dared to give things 'your best shot' then the other much-used phrases like 'land of opportunity' would kick in as well.

Christopher Hitchens

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Howard Dean

In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.

Carl Gustav Jung

Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem.

Joseph Sugarman

Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! I have been long a slave, and now am free;

Jan Struther

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Henry David Thoreau

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

Vannevar Bush

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

David Hockney

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Mario Batali

Voting is a civic sacrament.

Theodore Hesburgh

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Mike Tyson