When "everyone knows" that something is so, it is always…

“People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.”

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Awareness must be like the rays of the sun: extending everywhere, illuminating all.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

There are few greater treasures to be acquired in youth than great poetry-and prose-stored in the memory. At the time one may resent the…

— Richard Livingstone

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a…

— Gautama Buddha

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels…

— Ali Smith

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about…

— Eboo Patel

We don't know why we are here and . . . our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's…

— Joel Kinnaman

You just can't tell or calibrate motive or intelligence or sense. So I don't read anything unless someone tells me that it's really smart…

— Anna Quindlen

I think the first song I ever wrote ... was called "Can't Help Thinking About Me." That's an illuminating little piece, isn't it?

— David Bowie

The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach…

— Julie Mehretu

Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the…

— William Ellery Channing

Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our…

— James Richardson

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

— Bankei Yotaku