The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

Mortimer J. Adler

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward George BulwerLytton

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Albert Einstein

Nothing will work unless you do.

John Wooden

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.

Herbert Spencer, In Life and Let

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed.

Lech Walesa

I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

Charlotte Arnold

Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.

William Van Horne