We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.

Proverb

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security.

James Buchan

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.

Karen Armstrong

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Helen Hayes

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Rabindranath Tagore

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Anais Nin

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Lord Melbourne

Cheese runners shouted at it, tried to grab it, and flailed at it with sticks, but the piratical cheese scythed onward, reaching the bottom just ahead of the terrible carnage of men and cheeses as they piled up. Then it rolled back to the top and sat there demurely while still gently vibrating.At the bottom of the slope, fights were breaking out among the cheese jockeys who were still capable of punching somebody, and since everybody was watching that, Tiffany took the opportunity to snatch up Horace and shove him in her bag. After all, he was hers. Well, that was to say she had made him, although something odd must have gone into the mix since Horace was the only cheese that would eat mice and, if you didn't nail him down, other cheeses as well.

Terry Pratchett

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Herbert Simon

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Bill Gates

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Frank Waters

We're living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.

Ron Fournier