"In romance or friendship, what's important is how much you love the other person." - Gackt"

“Glen Campbell told me, 'Stay out of the way of a good song.' I think it's true. If a song's good, don't overdo it.”

“Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.”

Source : William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.142, William H. Calvin

“Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.”

“I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves.”

“Whatever your plan, you never invest your own self-worth in its ultimate success or failure.”

“Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

“Opinions are like demo tapes. I don't want to hear yours”

“The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.”