"Nothing else loves me, nor ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that's not a thing to love."

“I don't think I can get anywhere near to fully describing what love is.”

Source : "Benjamin Stone | Interview by Ocean Pleasant, Youth Editor". Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“And in English you have this wonderful difference between listening and hearing, and that you can hear without listening, and you can listen and not hear.”

“I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.”

“Initially I explored the tension between illustration and fine art when I first encountered miniature painting in my late teens. Championing the formal aspects of the Indo-Persian miniature-painting genre has often been at the core of my practice.”

“This government is acknowledged by all, to be one of enumerated powers.”

Source : John Marshall (1839). “The Writings of John Marshall: Late Chief Justice of the United States, Upon the Federal Constitution”, p.164

“What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.”

“Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it’s in and around us.”

Source : Sandra Dodd (2009). “Sandra Dodd's Big Book of Unschooling”, p.320, Lulu.com

“This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.”