The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Humans! They lived in the world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and anzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time...

Terry Pratchett

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive.

Orlando A. Battista

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.

Lee Iacocca

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

People in Oklahoma don't wake up every morning wondering what the government is going to do for them.

Mick Cornett

When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.

Lindsey Buckingham

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

Archie Shepp

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

Ronald Reagan

You've got to have a dream... if you don't have any big dreams, nothing happens.

Ian Rush

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

David Fyfe

Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

Sidney Sheldon

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Joseph Conrad