Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

Eric Stoltz

No one knows for sure that that tomorrow won't come, but most people assume that tomorrow will still exist as usual. This is Toba's Paradox, which means, hope overcomes doubt.

Toba Beta

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

Georges Guynemer

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Joel Osteen

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all it be nominally that of

Friedrich A. Hayek

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Cameron Conaway

He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.

Victor Hugo

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie