It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

Hannah Arendt

Wenn wir träumen, betreten wir eine Welt, die ganz und gar uns gehört.

J.K. Rowling

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Isaac Barrow

It's far better to shoot a good picture than a good-looking picture.

Robert Richardson

The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

Jean de la Bruyere

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

Laura Schlessinger

But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

Walton Goggins

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

When Jerry Lewis and I were big, we used to go to parties, and everybody thought I was big-headed and stuck up, and I wasn't. It was because I didn't know how to speak good English, so I used to keep my mouth shut.

Dean Martin

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Professor William Buechner

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Neil Gaiman

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal