It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

My wife was afraid of the dark... then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the light.

Rodney Dangerfield

If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.

Nick Offerman

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Andrew Cuomo

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

ThereÂ’s a land where the mountains are nameless,

Robert William Service, The Spel

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

If you have ever prayed for something and received what you wanted, you engaged in Cosmic Ordering.

Stephen Richards

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance, which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Ellen DeGeneres