"Nature says to a woman: 'Be beautiful if you can wise if you want to but be respected that is essential.'"
- Pierre Beaumarchais
"The great fault in women is to desire to be like men."
- De Maistre
"Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new."
- Blaise Pascal
"When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt."
- Henry J. Kaiser
"Half the world does not know how the other half lives."
- Francois Rabelais
"The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire."
- Pierre de Beaumarchais
"I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter."
"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic we see a new meaning in it."
- Anais Nin
"There is nothing wrong with being fascinated by the dark side of life, and ourselves, but woe to those who think this is representative of reality. All too many of us sit in our homes watching TV, fal..."
- Anthony Marais
"There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it."