Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Habeeb Akande

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.

Yves SaintLaurent

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Matthew Arnold

Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.

Jim Trelease

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Thomas Carlyle

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Lewis Cass

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Aldous Huxley

You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Wendell Parsons

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet,When absent souls in fancy meet.

Thomas Moore, from: To Julia

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

Alan Greenspan

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.many versions exist: The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein, attributed

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman