Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

Trevor Horn

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Holly Ketchel

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau

Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.

Saint Francis of Assisi

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

Oliver Cromwell

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Remy de Gourmont

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.

William Hull

Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, our masculinity so uncertain, and our families so beleaguered that no one knows what they are for or how they are sustained.

George Gilder

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

Vivienne Westwood