My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

But if a person has had the sense of the Call -- the feeling that there's an adventure for him -- and if he doesn't follow that, but remains in the society because it's safe and secure, then life dries up. And then he comes to that condition in late middle age: he's gotten to the top of the ladder, and found that it's against the wrong wall.If you have the guts to follow the risk, however, life opens, opens, opens up all along the line. I'm not superstitious, but I do believe in spiritual magic, you might say. I feel that if one follows what I call one's bliss -- the thing that really gets you deep in your gut and that you feel is your life -- doors will open up. They do! They have in my life and they have in many lives that I know of.http://www.michaelherman.com/openspacetechnology/invitingorg/08campbell.html

Joseph Campbell, From An Open Li

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

Alfred Hitchcock

Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.

Ambrose Bierce

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Jonathan Sacks

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world

George Bernard Shaw

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.

Cyril Connolly

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

Alan Greenspan

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Jay-Z

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Simone Weil

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Karl Kraus

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Oscar Wilde

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Albert Einstein