Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

William Shakespeare

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

Jo Nesbo

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

Jeffrey Tate

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Graham Swift

They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends.

Sebastian Bach

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Its a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of lifes realities.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

Thomas Carlyle

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness' sake don't do anything new.

Jeff Bezos

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Diablo Cody

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

William J. Clinton