You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

William Crashaw

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

Colleen Atwood

We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.

Buddha

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?

Marilyn Manson

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

Tadao Ando

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg

It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.

Henry David Thoreau

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

Steven Herrick

A good story is a dream shared by the author and the reader. Anything that wakes the reader from the dream is a mortal sin.

Victor J. Banis

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Bruce Springsteen

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

Harold MacMillan