“I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.”

“Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also, what is logic? I think I may need to break away from analytical thinking; this is the cause of all my anxieties.”

Gao Xingjian book Soul Mountain

“I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.”

Jean Ferris (1939–2015) American children's writer

“Because I'm a person who always has to do something. If I cannot do anything, I'm in a very bad way. But really I'm always working on something. And I always want to work, too. Well, the few artists I know really well, they are all so... It's a really bad block when you think, right, now I've got to do art. It really is very important to learn that that is not the most important thing.”

Isa Genzken (1948) German sculptor

“It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road, you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal.”

Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

“It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“As I sometimes said to the important Jews, when I had them, something like: 'Well then, do you know where you are? You're with the Czar of the Jews. Don't you know that, didn't you see the Pariser Tageblatt?!”

Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer

“What truly is logic? Who decides reason? […] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.”

John Nash (1928–2015) American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate

“How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer