I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.

Don Alan Pennebaker

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Susan Sontag

she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

Jane Austen

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

Oscar Wilde

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.

Don Van Vliet

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Ronald David Laing

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

George Eliot

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

John Frusciante

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert A. Bartlett

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.

Condoleezza Rice