I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.

The tendancy of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

George Eliot

Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters of R

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

Annie Lennox

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George S. Patton

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Johann von Goethe

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?

Dick Gregory

The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.

P.G. Wodehouse

Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Albert Einstein

It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.

Marianne Moore

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

Terry Pratchett