I don't have a very quick sense of humor.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

Mark Twain

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Yo-Yo Ma

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

Henry Taube

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Duke of Wellington Arthur Welles

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things.

Antonio Banderas

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

Cesar Chavez

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.

Laura Prepon