Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

Paulo Coelho

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say, 'Oh she's so old,' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it, yeah.

Geraldine Brooks

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Blaise Pascal

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.

Jerry Garcia

I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

Dalai Lama

Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.

George Bernard Shaw

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

Gloria Estefan

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell