The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Romantic love interests almost everybody, because almost everybody knows something about it, or would like to know.

Henry Van Dyke

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

C.S. Lewis

The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

Mark Twain

Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage.

Anthony Trollope

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Dana Fox

If therefore my work is negative, irreligious, atheistic, let it be remembered that atheism -- at least in the sense of this work -- is the secret of religion itself; that religion itself, not indeed on the surface, but fundamentally, not in intention or according to its own supposition, but in its heart, in its essence, believes in nothing else than the truth and divinity of human nature.

Ludwig Feuerbach

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Thom Yorke

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

Victor Hugo