Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.

Hugh Laurie

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.

Jerry Saltz

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.

Primo Levi

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Charles Monroe Schulz

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

J.K. Rowling

I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

Linda M. Godwin

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

Hesiod

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Elizabeth Bowen

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell