The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.

There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity.

Carl Sagan

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Werner Erhard

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Cardinal J. Newman

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Elayne Boosler

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

George Bernard Shaw

In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.

Gustavo Dudamel

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

John Ruskin

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here.

Tom Hopkins

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

John Heisman

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

Edie Brickell