I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

Lance Morrow

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

Fred A. Allen

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

Mercedes McCambridge

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

Tim O'Brien

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

Walter Pater

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

Edmund Burke

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jackie Robinson, as an athlete and as someone who was trying to make a stand for equality, he was exemplary.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.

Steve Jobs

To be fair, I am not the same man. The one who listened. The one who believed her.

Jodi Picoult

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann von Goethe