"Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity."

“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”

“I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.”

“I am not qualified to talk about the diet. Simply because I am not a dietician.”

“Try not to take pictures which simply show what something looks like. By the way you put the elements of an image together in a frame show us something we have never seen before and will never see again.”

“Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him.”

Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.467, Penguin UK

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”

“It's a wonderful feeling to have a niece like you Because you are always so dear You are so dear no matter the year But all throughout each day of the year There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.”

“If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.”

Source : "Amory Lovins: Energy Analyst and Environmentalist". The Plowboy Interview, www.motherearthnews.com. November/December 1977.