Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardlyvisible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

Alanis Morissette

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

Don Marquis

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Paul Valery

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

Taylor Swift

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Thomas Carlyle

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

Osho

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Anne Frank

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

Julien Benda

Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.

Jenna Fischer

We're constantly buying airplane tickets we travel on the Concorde.

Eva Herzigova

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Albert Camus