Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

Jeanette Winterson

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

Walter Knott

Trust in your preparation.

Davie Sheppard

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

Theodor Adorno

I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

Helen Keller

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Alan Watts

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Malala Yousafzai

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is the direct opposite of hate. By definition it's something you can't feel for more than a few minutes at a time, so what's all this bullshit about loving somebody for the rest of your life?

Judith Rossner

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Rodriguez

Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.

Wayne Dyer