'Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' <br/>'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.'<br/>'But my heart is agitated,' the boy said. 'It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her.' <br/>'Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.'

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

John Edward Masefield, from Sea

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

George Bancroft

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

Bernie Mac

If every one was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes

Mark Twain

Let them eat cake.

Marie Antoinette

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Neil Simon

I can't tell someone that their dreams are impossible.

Paulo Coelho

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Arthur Koestler

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Henry Home

He understood the tone of voice instinctively, as he always had; it was his greatest gift, to know emotions even better than the person feeling them.

Orson Scott Card

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Samuel Beckett

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

Jerry Orbach