The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Judge Learned Hand

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Benjamin Franklin

We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.

Tommy Chong

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Helen Hayes

I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

Heather Langenkamp

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Jean Paul Gaultier

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

He who defends everything defends nothing.

Frederick the Great

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Edward Coke

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

Will Durant