He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.

Anna Deavere Smith

My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind

Mahatma Gandhi

Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

Arabic Proverb

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

Jane Austen

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Marc Chagall

Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

Leonardo DaVinci

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Thomas Becket

From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.

Karl Marx

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.

E.A. Bucchianeri

every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.

Charles Dickens