Humility is attentive patience.

The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

Rene Magritte

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

Danny Boyle

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

Kevin Costner

For it is in giving that we receive.

Francis of Assisi

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

Orson Scott Card

If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.

Edward R. Murrow

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

George Weinberg

What one has to do usually can be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment between them.

Thomas Jefferson

Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, and thinking what no else has thought

Albert Einstein