There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth

I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice, but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

I think when I feel I'm at my best is when I'm on stage, and it's my version of jazz because it's just riffing or something.

It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.

The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules. --Abbey Drake

This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.