It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Charles Dickens

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Confucius

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.

Abraham Lincoln

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Jodi Picoult

Beware of the person of one book.

Thomas Aquinas

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

Neil Tennant

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar N. Bradley

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creature is a word of God.

Meister Eckhart

I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular.

Amy Winehouse

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Niccolo Machiavelli