When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Katherine Mansfield

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

Jennifer Aniston

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Pablo Picasso

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

Called a blind date to set up a meeting at a restaurant. Isaid, I'll be the one in the leather jacket. She said, I'llbe the one drinking sake. Turned out it was one of thosebiker sushi places. We never met.

Steven Wright

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

Taylor Momsen

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

Katarina Witt

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

Blaise Pascal

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Deepak Chopra

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

Sigmund Freud