I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's nothing more romantic than Italian food.

Elisha Cuthbert

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.

Steve Maraboli

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Ansel Adams

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

Victor Hugo

Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure

Henry David Thoreau

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

Walter Scott

Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.

Gaylord Nelson

History is merely a list of surprises.... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Please write that down.

Kurt Vonnegut

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.

Cameron Diaz