A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal.

Buddha

'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.

Julie Burchill

Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Oscar Wilde

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

Pope Benedict XVI

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Friedrich von Schiller

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

Grandma Moses

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

Robert A. Heinlein, Job: A Comed

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

Benjamin Haydon

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine