Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

Bill Cosby

Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.

Edward Kennedy

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Mick Jagger

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

Neil Gaiman

If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Every house where love abidesAnd friendship is a guest,Is surely home, and home, sweet homeFor there the heart can rest.

Henry Van Dyke

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

C.S. Lewis

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

George Santayana

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Quentin Tarantino