The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

Neil Gaiman

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like a gnat; can see the system of the universe of Uriel, the angel of the sun; can carry whatever loads a ton of coal can lift; can knock down cities with his fist of gunpowder; can recover the history of his race by the medals which the deluge, and every creature, civil or savage or brute, has involuntarily dropped of its existence; and divine the future possibility of the planet and its inhabitants by his perception of laws of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

Anthony Hopkins

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Samuel Butler

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Marcel Proust

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Publilius Syrus

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

Henry Cloud

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

G. W. F. Hegel

There are no enemies in science, professor. Only phenomena to study.

Charles Lederer

My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I told him that if I ever did a record I wanted him to play on it.

Jimmy Chamberlin

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Dennis Rodman