Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Little boats should keep near shore

Benjamin Franklin

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.

Oscar Wilde

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Alexandra Paul

How much obesity has to be created in a single decade for people to realize that diet has to be responsible for it?

Robert Atkins

By that sin fell the angels.

William Shakespeare

Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.

Friedrich Hölderlin

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

Samuel Gompers

Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

Steven Wright

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

Paul Simon

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

David O. McKay

If the world would fall apart in a fiction-worthy wind, I wouldn't change a thing now that you're here.

Brandon Boyd