If you purify your soul of attachment to and desire for things, you will understand them spiritually. If you deny your appetite for them, you will enjoy their truth, understanding what is certain in them.

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

Diane Kruger

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Ken Livingstone

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

Elvis Presley

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

Plato

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Samuel Johnson

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Tom Petty

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

Orson Scott Card

In every veil you see, the Divine Beauty is concealed, making every heart a slave to him. In love to him the heart finds its life; in desire for him the soul finds its happiness. The heart which loves a fair one here, though it knows it not, is really his lover.

Jami

The Lord took twice the time making thee, Alvin Smith, cause it took that long to put the mischief in.

Orson Scott Card

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Peter Drucker

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Vilfredo Pareto

Like the Phoenix, we can observe in our own lives that disintegration brings with it transformation and rebirth.

Donna Labermeier