Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

R. D. Laing, The Politics of Exp

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities.

Kristin Armstrong

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Oliver Goldsmith

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.

Queen Elizabeth

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

Marge Piercy

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

William Shakespeare

Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

Neil Gaiman

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Robert H. Schuller

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.

Marianne Williamson

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Steve Hackett