"We know that we can do it, but cannot describe in so many words how we do it, nor can we reduce it to a set of rules. At most, the observable facts of the indexing operation can be described."

“I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.”

“The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.”

Source : "Sofia Vergara's Secrets: The Esquire Cover Story" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. March 19, 2012.

“There were a lot of teen stars that were very cookie-cutter... I'm just being me.”

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

Source : "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”

“There can be no more intimate and elemental part of the individual than his or her own consciousness. At the deepest level, our consciousness is what we are - to the extent that if we are not sovereign over our own consciousness then we cannot in any meaningful sense be sovereign over anything else either.”

Source : Graham Hancock (2015). “The Divine Spark: Psychedelics, Consciousness and the Birth of Civilization”, p.8, Hay House, Inc

“I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.”

Source : Yves Tanguy (1974). “Yves Tanguy: Catalog of an Exhibition November 7-December 7, 1974”

“O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics