Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Peter Drucker

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way

Henry David Thoreau

I can take any truth just don't lie to me.

Barbra Streisand

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

Guy Pearce

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

William Bernbach

There are few things that you can't do as long as you are willing to apply yourself.

Greg LeMond

This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

Jodi Picoult

A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

Terry Pratchett

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.

Vera Farmiga