If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust they'll find their own way back to a healthy weight.

Arabella Weir

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Wolfgang Puck

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

J.K. Rowling

To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know.

Hannah Arendt

I have never doubted the truth of signs, Adso; they are the only things man has with which to orient himself in the world. What I did not understand is the relation among signs . . . I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.But in imagining an erroneous order you still found something. . . .What you say is very fine, Adso, and I thank you. The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless . . . The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Ros

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Barbara de Angelis

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Johann von Goethe

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

Andrew Bogut

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Harvey Fierstein

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

Albert Einstein

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

Henry David Thoreau