Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there. In his own pure individuality a man surpasses his father and mother, and is utterly unknown to them.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

Anthony Trollope

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

Milton Berle

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

James A. Baldwin

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Cole Porter

The Truth Is That Existence Wants Your Life To Become A Festival Because When You Are Unhappy, You Also Throw Unhappiness All Around.

Osho

I drive an electric car.

David Duchovny

Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that I've found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other.

Marilyn Hacker

I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital.

Halle Berry

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Hubert Humphrey