The balance between freedom and security is a delicate one.

The thing that I think is the most important is taking moments to express your appreciation to your partner. A thank you or a quick kiss can go a long way toward affirming your relationship and commitment to each other. That's not hard to do even when you're juggling insane careers and three kids.

Michael Ian Black

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

John Green

Didn't he know that when you work to destroy, you invite the Destroyer?

Orson Scott Card

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare

When first we met we did not guess that Love would prove so hard a master.

Robert Bridges

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

Nikki Giovanni

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Daniel Libeskind

This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Plutarch

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Aldous Huxley

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Lauren Bacall