Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Stability, insisted the Controller, stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Aldous Huxley

If your vision becomes distorted, your journey becomes delayed.

Steve Maraboli

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Blaise Pascal

I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.

Jessica Lange

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

Jean Piaget

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

Ashley Montagu

The principal part of faith is patience.

George MacDonald

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Aung San Suu Kyi

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

Biography is: a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Jos