This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

Susan Smith

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Charles Darwin

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Andre Breton

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Jonathan Sacks

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

William Ralph Inge

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

Maya Lin

I write poetry in order to live more fully.

Judith Rodriguez

If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.

Chinese Proverb

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Maya Lin

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Maya Lin

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Khalil Gibran

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette