Stability, insisted the Controller, stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.

Nicholas Stern

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in any other manner -- the actual functioning of thought. Dictated by the thought, in the absence of any control exercised by reason, exempt from any aesthetic or moral concern.

Andre Breton, Surrealist Manifes

I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.

Felix Baumgartner

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Victor Hugo

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Dalai Lama

People have taught me not to look for intelligence in rockmusic.

Andrew Eldritch

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

James Lovelock

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia Maria Child

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

Dave Matthews

I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter.

Lily Aldridge