The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

Mae West, My Little Chickadee, 1

Just as a prism of glass miters light and casts a colored braid, a garden sings sweet incantations the human heart strains to hear. Hiding in every flower, in every leaf, in every twig and bough, are reflections of the God who once walked with us in Eden.

Tonia Triebwasser, The Color of

Give me your tired, your poor,

Emma Lazarus, Excerpted from a p

In the essence of truth lies deceit.

Dejan Stojanovic

Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters -- because girls can read as well as boys -- reading this book? Is it a book that you would have lying around in your own house? Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?

Mervyn GriffithJones

You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.

Gael Garcia Bernal

Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.

William Shakespeare

So, did I work with Warhol? I worked with him less on that play then I did on other things. He actually did a portrait of my rabbit and some other stuff. Warhol was definitely... Warhol.

Harvey Fierstein

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.

Vera Farmiga

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Miuccia Prada

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.

Stephen Richards

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott