Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

Peter Jennings

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Thomas Hardy

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

Leonardo da Vinci

The continuity of our science has not been affected by all these turbulent happenings, as the older theories have always been included as limiting cases in the new ones.

Max Born

Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Hermann Goering

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Imelda Staunton

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Robert Frost

Either sex alone is half itself.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

JeanPaul Sartre

You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me.

Justin Cronin