What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

David Mamet

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Nicole Kidman

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Daniel Radcliffe

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

Paul Theroux

To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.

Donald Laird

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

Nina Garcia

It is much safer to obey, than to govern.

Thomas Kempis

It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace.

American Indian Proverb, Shenand

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, longbows and handgrenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon so long as there is no answer to it gives claws to the weak.

George Orwell

Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

Susan Sontag

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI