Facing facts is definitely preferable to facing defeat.

Why should there be some sort of virtue always attributed to a frank admission of vice?

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.

Desperate diseases require desperate remedies.

I feel so very grateful to have the voice God gave me. It takes a lot of rest and training to sing, and I was lucky that I found a great teacher when I first moved to New York.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

What could me more plausible than a line of reasoning which argues that the explanation of the origin of a system was to achieve an end that has in fact been achieved?

One hand was behind his back, and he held it out, presenting a bouquet of white and smoky purple lilies. "They're straight from the underworld, by the way. They are everlasting. They won't die."

courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.