We may have our private opinions, but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

[Space dedicated to creativity is the goal of artists of all kinds. Virginia Woolf lauded the] room of one's own ... You must have a room or a certain hour or so a day where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning. . . This is the place of creative incubation . . . If you have a sacred place and use it something eventually will happen.

We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one have we?

If there were only one truth you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

The fields from Islington to Marybone / To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood / Were builded over with pillars of gold, / And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.

When my mom ran for the Senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice 'Why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?'

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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