If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Good enough never is.

Debbi Fields

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Paul Valery

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

Phil McGraw

Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone.

Kurt Vonnegut

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Carter Burwell

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

Charles H. Duell, 1899

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman

Colonel Kane: You're convinced that God is dead because there's evil in the world. Captain Cutshaw: Correct. Colonel Kane: Then why don't you think He's alive because of the goodness in the world?

William Peter Blatty, The Ninth

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

Josh Hutcherson

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

Robin Gibb

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.

Eoin Colfer