Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Claude LeviStrauss

There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

Mark Twain

I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.

Angelina Jolie

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.

Howard Dietz

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

Rocco DiSpirito

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

Mickey Hart