The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.

Walter Lippmann

Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.

Plato

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Oscar Wilde

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Stanley Kubrick

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Mary Caroline Richards

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

Dan Lipinski

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Khalil Gibran

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Albert Camus

Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

Rudyard Kipling

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Ludacris

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Denis Diderot