To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

J. Donald Walters

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Black Elk

The multitude is always wrong.

Proverb

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Lao Tzu

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Beauty is momentary in the mind / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal. / The body dies; the body's beauty lives.

Wallace Stevens

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

Julie Burchill

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lewis Lehr

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Erich Fromm

I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life.

Geoffrey Rush