"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he didn't he would cease to be an artist." - Oscar Wilde

"I live to see the day when animals have the right to run if they have legs, have the right to swim if they have fins, have the right to fly if they have wings." - Gretchen Weiler

"All the water in the world, however hard it tried could never sink the smallest ship unless it gets inside."

"Give a man a mask & he'll tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

"Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, there would be a lot more compassion & tolerance in the world." - The Secret Lives of Men & Women

"I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.” - Richard M. Nixon

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most - to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person." - Audrey Hepburn

"Life doesn't always give you the people you want. It gives you the people you need - to teach you. hurt you, love you, to make you laugh & to make you exactly the person you should be."

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities & the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility." - John Lennon

"There comes a time in your life when you realize who matters, who never did & who always will. Don't worry about people from your past ... there's a reason they didn't make it to your future."

"The Earth is what we all have in common. It is what we are made of & what we live from - we cannot damage it without damaging those with whom we share it. There is an uncanny resemblance between our behavior toward each other & our behavior toward the Earth. By some connection we do not recognize, the willingness to exploit one becomes the willingness to exploit the other. It is impossible to care for each other more or differently than we care for the Earth."