Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

So little done, so much to do.

Cecil Rhodes

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.

Carol Ann Duffy

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

Zora Neale Hurston

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Joan Jett

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Julie Andrews

Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.

Don DeLillo

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Bertrand Russell

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

David Niven

Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind

Joseph Campbell

I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

Gene Wilder

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

R. Buckminster Fuller