Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

It's like one of those dreams you have when someone is chasing you. You're running as fast as you can, and someone's trotting behind you, just out of range, trying to grab onto you.

Michael Chang

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Paul Ryan

The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy.

Wendelin Van Draanen

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work...It would be more useful than divination, anyway...

J.K. Rowling

In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.

Henri Matisse

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

Jean Sibelius

That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

Rosa Luxemburg

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

Charles Baudelaire

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Doug Coupland

The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

Rafer Johnson

I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best. The mortality among pianists in that place is marvellous.

Oscar Wilde, Impressions of Amer