You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Helmut Jahn

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Vernon Howard

I ate some emotional soup in my childhood and have spent a lifetime trying to digest it.

Billy Ray Chitwood

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

Hugh Jackman

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Larry David

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Democritus

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

Zhang Ziyi

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Anthony Davis

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Euripides

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.

Michael Scheuer

Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

Robert G. Ingersoll