I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches and wizards for years. We've been exploring the world of vampires for years. Clearly the public - I mean, I feel like all of this was ushered in by 'Harry Potter' - in my own fannish beliefs.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know; our knowledge of our ignorance. For this indeed, is the main source of our ignorance - the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl R. Popper

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

Katy Perry

I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

Gabrielle Reece

Drink coffee. Do stupid things faster with more energy.

Anonymous

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Orison Swett Marden

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

Hugh Leonard

I think God is something that people use to avoid reality. I think faith allows people to reject what is right in front of our eyes, which is that thing, this life, this existence, this consciousness, or whatever word you want to use for it, is all we have, and all we'll ever have. I think people have faith because they want and need to believe in something, whatever that something is, because life can be hard and depressing and brutal if you don't.

James Frey

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

Oscar Wilde

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Mark Twain

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

William C. Bryant