I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you?Gildor says this in response to Frodo saying Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of th

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

William James

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Benjamin Franklin

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J. J. Abrams

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will play out the string. I will not betray your trust. I will find you.

John Green

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

George Orwell

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

L. Wolfe Gilbert

For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there raind a ghastly dewFrom the nations airy navies grappling in the central blue;Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,With the standards of the peoples plunging thro the thunder-storm;Till the war-drums throbbd, no longer, and the battle-flags were furldIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.

Proverb