I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Michel de Montaigne

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Alison Krauss

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'

Max Planck

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death doesn't frighten me.

Princess of Wales Diana

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Jane Austen

In this journey you must become a lover of your enemies, so that the purity of your love may attract the hearts.

Abdu'l-Baha

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

Oscar Hammerstein II

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Shahrukh Khan

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Nelson Mandela

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Clare Boothe Luce

So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks.

Samuel Bonom