When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Herbert Simon

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

Shay Mitchell

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films.

Corey Hart

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

George Eliot

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

William Shakespeare

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

R. D. Laing

here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

Anthony Powell

Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.

Thomas Traherne

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Gregory Nunn

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

Wilfrid Sheed

Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Ralph Nader