It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.

There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.

Rufus Wainwright

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

I intend to explode the myths about myself and get down to the real truth about the legend that is Batman.

Bob Kane

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Pearl Bailey

I don't have any romantic ideas about marriage. Trust me. A white dress... ? No. It's not something for me.

Diane Kruger

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

Jimmy Page

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Keith Haring

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Lev Grossman

If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality springs.

Eugene J. Martin

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

Morihei Ueshiba

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

W. C. Sellar

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Ronald Reagan