I always entertain great hopes.

The better I know men the more I admire dogs.

Source Unknown

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Ever from one who comes to-morrow Men wait their good and truth to borrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,Is wetter water, slimier slime!And there (they trust) there swimmeth OneWho swam ere rivers were begun,Immense, of fishy form and mind,Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.

Rupert Brooke, Heaven (1914 and

Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not.

William James

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

William Shakespeare

Whether in success or in failure, I'm proud of every single movie I've ever directed.

Steven Spielberg

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

Iain Thomas

Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.Description of Provincetown, Massachusetts

Norman Mailer

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

George Santayana

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

David Amram

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw