The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good.

A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.

Put on the music, and listen. Zazen means to sit, to listen. You're listening to enlightenment, to the universes, to the planes of mind.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.

I did not grow up with silver spoon in my mouth.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

I'm interested in producing truncated shapes in proportion to the frame and composition, shapes that are preferably luminous. I'm not interested in the full-figure. I want to abstract forms.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.