the urge to destroy is a creative urge

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Michael Fish

O!, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken!

Sir Walter Scott, Lord of the Is

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

Paul Gauguin

You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.

Gabrielle Union

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

It is just called Continuing Legal Education. You can go to lectures, you can even listen to tapes on airplanes - they want you to stay current. So you do have to stay current to maintain your license even if you are not practicing.

Frank Shorter

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.

Joseph Rotblat

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Anthony Kiedis

Only those live who do good.

Leo Tolstoy

That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

Nikki Giovanni