Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.

Jared Matthew Kessler

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Kevin Smith

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Earl Nightingale

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

Maurice Strong

On vanity: The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Blaise Pascal

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.

Decimus Magnus Ausonius

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jane Fonda

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

Simone de Beauvoir

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

will.i.am