How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

Margaret Forster

He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

Ramakrishna

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

Hugh Jackman

And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you'd ever come across.

Bear Grylls

My daily beauty regimen is definitely always in the mornings, and at night, always washing my face with a basic cleanser. I also use a moisturizer with SPF to follow up.

Shay Mitchell

You cannot see the mountain near

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without the making of love there is no body to love anything.

Barry Long

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral

D.H. Lawrence

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

Garth Brooks

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

Franz Kafka

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Jerry Saltz