A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

Arnold Palmer

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Sir John Vanbrugh

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Ashley Judd

There's something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That's how 'Speed' is. He's a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

Emile Hirsch

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Andy Grove

I don't know if my sense of humor goes over Americans' heads.

Ryan Kwanten

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there -- even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.

Robert Doisneau

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson