"When you like someone, you have to allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy."

“Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1984). “A History of Haiku: From the beginnings up to Issa”

“I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.”

“We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.”

“Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.”

“If a thing goes without saying -- let it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speech openers and closers”

“One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”

“You have to be professional and think about the future.”

“I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.