Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it

Violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which are destroyed at the first kiss.

William Shakespeare

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Dag Hammarskjold

I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by members of the United Nations many times.

Ariel Sharon

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

W. H. Auden

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.

Carl Sandburg

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.

Evelyn Waugh

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

Francis Ford Coppola

I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Liam Neeson

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Death isn't on line. If he was, there would be a sudden drop in the death rate. Although it'd be interesting to see if he'd post things like: DON'T YOU THINK I SOUND LIKE JAMES EARL JONES?

Terry Pratchett