I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.

Marc Newson

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James Barrie

It is not to be disguised, that a war has broken out between the North and the South. - Political and commercial men are industriously striving to restore peace: but the peace, which they would effect, is superficial, false, and temporary.

Gerrit Smith

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

Stephen Richards

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

Source Unknown

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.

Matthew Arnold

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

Thomas Hobbes

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Victor Hugo

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Holly Black