The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

When everybody contributes a change to what he or she notices, it is then we will change our world.

The ability to lie, paired with unaccountability, has made a near infinite amount of liabilities.

The French have the right respect for dogs--in France we chiens get to go to lunch and dinner anytime, anywhere.

How do I think different from the Crowd??I just watch different stuff, different from the crowd this put's me in problems which are different than the crowd Problems!

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace