When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Wes Anderson

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

Grover Cleveland

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

James Blake

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

Neil LaBute

No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Michel de Montaigne

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

Peabo Bryson

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

Herman Melville

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

John W. Draper

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

Doug Coupland

The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do, like having a family, earning money, traveling, and learning a foreign language. Others, though, decide that it really is possible to make a difference in society and to shape the world we will hand on to future generations.

Paulo Coelho

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

Arthur Golden