"Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion."

“You can't plan anything, right? You can try.”

“I will look through 200 photographs of Kate Moss and there will be just one that I connect with for some reason, maybe because of the composition or something in the eye... Something touches me and I know I have to paint it, in the way a child knows it wants something.”

Source : "Stars in her eyes". Hermione Eyre, The Independent on Sunday, July 15, 2007.

“I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.”

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

“There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.81, Macmillan

“I think people in Montreal smoke a lot, and I used to smoke when I was 17-18, and just picked it up when I was playing juniors. But I think I stopped when I was 22, which was a big decision in my life.”

“we love what we love and who we love who we love and why we love why we love and find a falling shoelace knotted and strung between the fingers of strangers”

“Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”

“Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power of self addition and re-adaptation, in greater degree than any other religion that the world has even seen, we believe it to be the one immortal faith.”

Source : Sister Nivedita (1915). “Religion and Dharma”