Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.

Koo Stark

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

Erika Christensen

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Confucius

The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.

Marshall McLuhan

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Richard Dawkins

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Cal Thomas

Sincerity is moral truth.

George Henry Lewes

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Maya Angelou

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

C.S. Lewis

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

Karl Lagerfeld

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Stephen Cosgrove