Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.

I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

Junior Seau

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.

William Shakespeare

It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.

Doug Horton

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

E. O. Wilson

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

American Indian Proverb, Hopi

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

Henrik Ibsen, Pillars of Society

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

Nicholas Sparks

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Ellen Glasgow

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

Kahlil Gibran

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

Jason Reitman

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Stephen Covey

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

Sir Richard Steele