You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.

...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

Paolo Giordano

You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Johann von Goethe

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, "London

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

The power of the people is greater than the people in power.

Wael Ghonim

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.

John Lennon

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Naomi Wolf

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

Tim Gunn

The art of government is the organization of idolatry

George Bernard Shaw