The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Don Henley

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Proverb

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Barry Cornwall

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

B. C. Forbes

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

King Abdullah II

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

Edward Furlong

She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.

George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial

She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.

Orson Scott Card

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling Kilroy was here on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass.

William Faulkner

I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract.

Joaquin Phoenix

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

Jessica Kissner