The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

When I was born the doctor took one look at my face...turned me over and said.. Look...twins!

Rodney Dangerfield

When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

M. Night Shyamalan

From our earliest hour we have been taught that the thought of the heart, the shaping of the rain-cloud, the amount of wool that grows on a sheep's back, the length of a drought, and the growing of the corn, depend on nothing that moves immutable, at the heart of all things; but on the changeable will of a changeable being, whom our prayers can alter. To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not. Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is --the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality?

Olive Schreiner

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

William O Douglas

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

Huston Smith

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Jodi Picoult

Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

James Russell Lowell

I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

Henry David Thoreau

The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.

Kylie Minogue

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

J.K. Rowling