Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Bertrand Russell

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .

J.K. Rowling

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

Richard Rogers

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I make a film I'm away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

Kevin Costner

She was full of some strange energy that morning. Her every movement had purpose and life and she seemed to find satisfaction in every little thing.

Anna Godbersen

Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.

Claud Cockburn

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Clifford Stoll

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

John Lancaster Spalding

If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.

Booker T. Washington

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

Al Capone

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Bertrand Russell