"The only time you'll ever have is now."

“Still, I wonder if more women artists, musicians and writers aren't household names because we don't have enough faith in our own pursuits to give ourselves the time we desperately need to be transformed by a creative vision. Maybe that glass ceiling isn't really made of glass at all, but of sticky little fingers, dishes piled in the sink, and mortgages that demand two incomes.”

“Family is the center of life. It is the key to eternal happiness.”

“Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.”

“Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.”

“Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.”

“There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or chosen to ignore in order to continue living with the various illusions that make life, particularily life with other people, possible.”

“Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.”

Source : "It's the real Texans who count" by Wendy Davis, www.cnn.com. July 12, 2013.

“The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.154, Courier Corporation