The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving HOW NOT TO DO IT.

Charles Dickens

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

Robert Downey, Jr.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.

Helen Gahagan

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.

Rodan of Alexandria

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Denise Shekerjian

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

Julie Christie

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

Alvin Lee

Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

Henri Nouwen

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Friedrich von Schiller

A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?

Albert Camus

There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

Carl Sandburg