"Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful."

“To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.”

“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”

“I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.”

“The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (1997). “The Trouble with Testosterone: And Other Essays on the Biology of the Human Predicament”, Scribner Book Company

“I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'”

“Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.”

“It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.”

Source : Richard Wagner (1994). “Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press

“The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.”