What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium.Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.http://www.rwe.org/works/Essays-2nd_Series_2_Experience.htm

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.

Charles de Lint

I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.

Lee Ritenour

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

Noam Chomsky

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

Thomas Malthus

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

Zoe Kravitz

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

Jenna Bush

What nearly everybody in my life

Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Ro

My sisters both are working mothers. I understand that my being an actress as well as being at home isn't some heroic thing. That doesn't mean it isn't confusing or difficult - especially that question of how you find a balance.

Jennifer Garner

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers