All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

So when I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.

Thierry Henry

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Gershwin

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension.

Jacques Lacan

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Milton Friedman

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Billy Graham

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Tom Hanks

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Jack Nicholson

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

Jay Kay

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moonlight is sculpture.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The root of the matter the thing I mean is love, Christian love, or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell