I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Nam June Paik

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Henry David Thoreau

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

Thomas Traherne

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Ronald Reagan

Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.

Robert Collier

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.

Sarah Dessen

My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike mood. And the viewer himself can't understand why that mood exists, because there are no dripping watches or grotesque shapes as reference points. That is what I'm after: that mood which is apart from everyday life, the type of mood that one experiences at very special moments.

Ian Hornak, "The 57th Street Rev

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry David Thoreau

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Tom Ford

And let's dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that, and say a prayer for our country and for our people.

Robert Kennedy

Trusting too much to others' care is the ruin of many

Benjamin Franklin