The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin

I am not afraid. I was born for this.

Joan of Arc

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Earl Nightingale

They grew in beauty side by side, They filled one home with glee: Their graves are severed far and wide By mount and stream and sea.

Felicia Hemans

Talk is cheap. Show me the code.

Linus Torvalds

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

James Brown

For I am every dead thing, In whom love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness He ruined me, and I am re-begot Of absence, darkness, death; things which are not.

John Donne

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

Oswald Chambers

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Joseph Addison

I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

Heath Ledger

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

Ernest Hemingway

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Hosea Ballou