Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Bryan Adams

...the magic of love runs at cross purposes with the rhythm of living...

John Geddes

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Louis Leakey

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Dave Chappelle

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Kahlil Gibran

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.

Irvin D. Yalom

Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.

Ihab Hassan

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Oscar Wilde

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

Angela Lambert