Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.

Jay Weatherill

I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

Robert A. Heinlein

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

Walker Percy

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Daniel Craig

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Mahatma Gandhi

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

John Dryden

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Conrad Hall

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Sharon Salzberg