The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation but I'm working on the foundation.

Marilyn Monroe

What a heaven is love! O what a hell!

Thomas Dekker

Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.

Rene Redzepi

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Take no thought for tomorrow; for tomorrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Matthew 6:34

Bible

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

J. K. Rowling

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Vivienne Westwood

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

Frank Knight

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

John Updike

Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

Steve Maraboli

Liberty never came from government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Woodrow Wilson, Speech in New Yo

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton