Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Karl Marx

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Tim Heidecker

So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope. There, then, he sat, holding up that imbecile candle in the heart of that almighty forlornness. There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.

Herman Melville

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

Neil Young

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Kevin Spacey

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

Emo Philips

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

Paul Eldridge

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.

Adam Clayton Powell

Having acknowledged the measure of the good to be pleasure, i.e., beauty, the European upper classes went back in their comprehension of art to the gross conception of the primitive Greeks which Plato had already condemned. And with this understanding of life, a theory of art was formulated.

Leo Tolstoy

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

Victor Hugo