"Imagination stimulates your thinking power by giving your mind abundant data with which to work. It opens the gate to dreams and fantasies so that you may become receptive, as a little child, in exploring the Kingdom of Ideas."

“I am a glutton. I'll eat whatever is there. Pizza. I love hot dogs anywhere. I've got nothing against any of that. If I feel like eating, I eat. I don't feel guilty about it at all.”

Source : "Chef Jacques Pepin Eats Airport Hot Dogs, Rarely Spends More than $12 on Wine". "Bon Appetit" interview, www.bonappetit.com. November 14, 2011.

“The moon upon the ocean is swept around in motion, but without ever knowing.”

Source : Song: Anywhere Is

“Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.”

Source : Jacques Maritain (2012). “Christianity and Democracy, the Rights of Man and Natural Law”, p.36, Ignatius Press

“I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.”

Source : Samuel Hoffenstein (1954). “Complete Poetry”

“You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process.”

“In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is heart.”

“The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

“When I don't know something, I surround myself with people I can trust to teach me.”

Source : "Beloved teen Sam Berns dies at 17 after suffering from rare disease" by Greg Botelho, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2014.