Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

Plato

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people.

Terry Pratchett

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide, The Fruits of the Ea

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster--the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face--could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

Anita Shreve

Let's hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won't buy.

Simon Mainwaring

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.

Sigourney Weaver

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

Brian Koslow

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

Carl Sagan

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space; it isTo see a world in a grain of sand,And a Heaven in a wild flower,Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,And eternity in an hour;it is to know not as yet that you are under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.

Francis Thompson