Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right?

Claire Danes

What do you mean by faith? Is faith enough for Man? Should he be satisfied with faith alone? Is there no way of finding out the truth? Is the attitude of faith, of believing in something for which there can be no more than philosophic proof, the true mark of a Christian?

Clifford D. Simak

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

John Desmond Bernal

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Daniel Craig

And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out.

Sandra Cisneros

To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Hellmut Walters

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remainds perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

Terry Pratchett

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.

Johan Huizinga

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Joel Osteen

To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

Tibor Kalman