...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

Danny Strong

We were two and had but one heart between us.

Francois de Montcorbier Villon

When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

Pablo Picasso

France is herself Only in the winter, her naked self, without manners. In the fine weather, all the world can love her.

James Salter

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Bertrand Russell

I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.

will.i.am

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

Victor Hugo

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness.

Jimmie Davis

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Aldous Huxley

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

Hans Kung

More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

Deb Caletti