Look after goodness and truth, beauty will look after herself.

The best man is like water.Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.It dwells in lowly places that all disdain.This is why it is so near to Tao.

LaoTzu, The Way of Laotzu

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

J. J. Abrams

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), 1922

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Mark Boal

Sono così intelligente che a volte non capisco una sola parola di quel che sto dicendo.

Oscar Wilde

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

Favored Nations is a long-term commitment. Our hope is that those who are passionate about real musicianship will want to hear and own most of our albums. We will set out to attain the same direct relationship with our customers that we have with our artists.

Steve Vai

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

Henry Cisneros

Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, poetry, music, love, affection, hatred, passion, went its way, as always, independently, apart from the political amity or enmity of Napoleon Bonaparte, and apart from all possible reforms.

Leo Tolstoy

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Sextus Propertius

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Voltaire