This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

... One can know very much but comprehend very little and, besides, ... different objectives require different levels of knowledge - though always with the maximum possible comprehension suited to the purpose.

Felix Alba-Juez

The hippy movement was a failure.

Joe Strummer

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

Famke Janssen

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

George Bernard Shaw

Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.

Oscar Wilde

The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness wee already there. To feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and courage will very likely replace fear. If we act as if from some better feeling, the bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab and silently steals away

William Shakespeare

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

Imagine others complexly.

John Green

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

John Mayer

Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.

Richard Donner

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

Pete Rozelle