My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart -- and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Anthony Rapp

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

Enya

For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.

James Thomson

The script was just the best I'd read in a long time and I love the humor, which I wasn't expecting, and I like the fact that my six year old daughter can see the show without being, you know, protected from it.

Stephen Collins

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Thomas Fuller

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Philip Gibbs

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

Northrop Frye

Don't mistake activity for achievement.

John Wooden

States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.

Anna Lindh

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Margaret Mead

The truth doesn't always make a good story, does it?

Lev Grossman