. . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the world below is as dead and remote and without interest as if it were glazed with ice.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

Michael Caine

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.

Thomas Carlyle

He speaketh not; and yet there liesA conversation in his eyes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Susan Sontag

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.

Andrzej Wajda

To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.

Thomas S. Monson

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Angela Ruggiero

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Jan De Hartog

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

Pat Riley