My habit would have been to veer towards the dark - to prove I was something edgy, or maybe to prove that I was cognisant of the dark side. Now, with age and confidence, I can say, yeah, that's true, but I am cognisant of the fact that people can do things well. And can be more loving than you expect.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

John Green

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Arnold J. Toynbee

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Siddha Nagarjuna

In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.

Joseph R. Sizoo

Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Robert Rodriguez

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

Mitt Romney

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Nancy Kerrigan

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Caroll Shelby

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Ann Richards

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

Robert Creeley

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann von Goethe