Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large.

Miracle me no miracles.

Miguel de Cervantes

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Henry David Thoreau

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Roy Chapman Andrews

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

Mark Wahlberg

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

Danny DeVito

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

Laura Linney

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Roy Keane

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

David Herbert Donald

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits.

W.V.O. Quine

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Robert Burns

The most important thing I gained from my travels was the knowledge that one could achieve anything with determination and an ounce of luck.

Stefan Waydenfeld