It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

Italian Proverb

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.

Norah Jones

Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that's why I wear suits. I'm praying to the gods, and I'm doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world.

Mike Mills

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Timothy Radcliffe

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

Harlan Coben

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

William Irwin Thompson

With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

Orson Scott Card

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Alexander Pope

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

Walter Gropius

Life is not meant to be an open-book test.

Alyson Noel

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Jonah Lehrer