“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen   “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.” ― Leonard Cohen   “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.” ― Leonard Cohen   “Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen   “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?” ― Leonard Cohen   “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a…

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov   “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov   “In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.” ― Isaac Asimov   “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” ― Isaac Asimov   “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.”…

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinci   “A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” ― Leonardo da Vinci     “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” ― Leonardo da Vinci   “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” ― Leonardo da Vinci     “It had…