Taking a chance on a new author, can open your mind to new experiences.

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.

As time goes by, westart to see more clearly, and are able to see thatit wasn’t all bad, and thatperhaps just perhapsthe breakup was a gift.

So many of our young women today, they're growing up without a father, but they're still thirsty for that and desiring positive male love.

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.

I've never ceased to be amazed at the survival skills of poor children. I've learned how much children can actually do for themselves if only we provide the necessary means. That part is up to us.

How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!

I don't see a big difference between painting and photography. Moreover, such distinctions mean nothing to me.

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.