Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.
You know, I'm not very good at magic - I can only do half of a trick. Yes - I'm a member of the Magic Semi-circle.
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.
In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.
At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
Surprise drives progress because innovation depends on the sort of knowledge no one can gather in a central place.
No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.
We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you'd like to succeed at.
The most divine light only shineth on those minds which are purged from all worldly dross and human uncleanliness.
Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and similitude.
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.
Death, which hateth and destroyeth a man, is believed; God, which hath made him and loves him, is always deferred.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.
Sometimes fear comes, not before the battle or even in the midst of the battle, but after we have won the victory.
For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times.
Really, having a show freely available online is like having your book in the library. It's wonderful; it's ideal.
My heart gives thanks for empty moments given to dreams, and for thoughtful people who help those dreams come true
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.
The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.
The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.
Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror.
Doubt is always accompanied by a pervasive cynicism that unconsciously puts a negative spin on whatever it touches.
You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.
If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to peace is peace.
Today I set my mind and heart on a new path. I focus my energy on love, appreciation, and my highest possibilities.
For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.
A great many people, and more all the time, live their entire lives without ever once sleeping out under the stars.
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.
If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you
I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.
Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.
Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian.
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
There are certain concepts, which exist in english, and are unthinkable, untranslatable into Hebrew and vice versa.