I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

James Baldwin

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Edward Norton

Only when your intent and actions are in alignment can you create the reality you desire.

Steve Maraboli

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette

I love very much to draw animals.

Josef Albers

A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.

Edward Norris Kirk

Drink nothing with out seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Proverb

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

SunTzu

There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa. Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

George Orwell

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Susanne K. Langer

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

Lillian Smith