There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Little by little, the pimps have taken over the world. They don't do anything, they don't make anything - they just stand there and take their cut.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

People should never sit alone for too long when they're crying.

Only God is the Giver and Master of Creativity and imagination because they are gifts that can only come from Him Alone!

Who needed Prozac when a girl could get Pillsbury without a prescription?" ~Allie Shelby, Personal Assets

I believe in the power of the human spirit.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models

A call for women... To rise up what it really takes for the reward of financial freedom.

The Russian people chose democracy at the beginning of the 1990s and this was their final choice.