...gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Allan Massie

In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?

Henry David Thoreau

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Jacques Prevert

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

Sydney J. Harris

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

Regis Philbin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

Benjamin Franklin

Moon! Moon! am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Amy Lowell

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

Gloria Steinem

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.

Joni Mitchell

I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.

Chloe Moretz

The great God endows His children variously. To some he gives intellect -- and they move the earth. To some he allots heart -- and the beating pulse of humanity is theirs. But to some He gives only a soul, without intelligence -- and these, who never grow up, but remain always His children, are God's fools, kindly, elemental, simple, as if from His palette the Artist of all had taken one color instead of many.

Mary Roberts Rinehart