The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

Dario Argento

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

Bad, quirky poetry might be better than some of the good stuff, because it really comes from the heart.

Cheryl Hines

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Havelock Ellis

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Robert Frost

I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Mark Twain

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

Since the beginning of the 21st century, thanks to the concerted efforts of both sides, China-U.S. relationship has on the whole enjoyed steady growth. Since President Obama took office, we have maintained close contact through exchange of visits, meetings, telephone conversations and letters.

Hu Jintao

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

John Green

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

Andres Segovia