We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

John Updike

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Steven Soderbergh

Love is often the fruit of marriage.

Moli

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Charles Caleb Colton

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.

Blaise Pascal

America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.

Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Maria Callas

The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

Albert Einstein

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty

Mark Twain

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Haruki Murakami

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death.

Michael Cunningham

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

K.M. Johnson