The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Frederick Douglass

While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

James Joyce

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.

Gilda Radner, It's Always Someth

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Stanislav Grof

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

Jodi Picoult

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

Federico Fellini

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

Source Unknown

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Oscar Wilde

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery.

Erica Goros