A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked.

C.S. Lewis

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Douglas Adams

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

If only, If only, life was as simple as it was during childhood.

Source Unknown

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world. I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.

Primo Levi

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

Mindy Kaling

The one sure way of participating in the process of nation-building is to vote on the election day.

Mohit Chauhan

Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

Protagoras

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

P. J. O'Rourke

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

Eric Alterman

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Brian Molko

My dad would always say, 'What can you do to make the world a better place?' Well, I can make people laugh.

Jon Lovitz