Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Hubert Humphrey

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Louver is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Jean Cocteau

I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.

Milla Jovovich

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

William Manchester

I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is my dearest hope that we will produce some fantastic books together.

Jarvis Cocker

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.

Jeremy Rifkin

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

John Barth