"The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself."

“There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.”

“The closer you can get to your setting and to primary sources, the more authentic your history is going to be.”

Source : Source: www.sfsignal.com

“The difference between art and craft lies not in the tools you hold in your hands, but in the mental set that guides them. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.”

“No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”

Source : Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

“The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.”

Source : Denis Donoghue (1994). “The old moderns: essays on literature and theory”, Knopf

“Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.”

Source : X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press

“IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.”

Source : "Lawrence Wright on 'Going Clear'". Interview with Mark Guarino, www.chicagotribune.com. January 18, 2013.

“Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.”