To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Tim Vine

I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.

Nikos Kazantzakis

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Lars von Trier

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Jim Rohn

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon

Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.

American Indian Proverb, Omaha

What is art? Nature concentrated.

Honore de Balzac

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years.

Anthony Holden

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

J.K. Rowling

We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

George Wald

The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.

Wilhelm Reich