What would life be if we didn't shake and wake ourselves up once and a while

The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.

Terry Riley

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.

George Orwell

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

Mireille Mathieu

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Saint Augustine

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Theodore Bikel

The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

Sigmund Freud

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Marquis De Custine

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Fernando Flores