To begin, begin.

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

Larry McMurtry

Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future.

Mattie Stepanek

Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

Susan Sontag

It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.

John Lydon Rotten

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.

Dorothy Parker

War is a defeat for humanity.

Pope John Paul II

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

Alfred Adler

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

Orson Welles

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

John Green