Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made.

Michael J. Fox

Be not afraid of greatness.

William Shakespeare

We often give our enemies the means to our own destruction.

Aesop

I will go tell him of Hermia's flight:Then to the wood will he to-morrow nightPursue her; and for this intelligenceIf I have thanks, it is a dear expense:But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.

William Shakespeare

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Chinese Proverb

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Wislawa Szymborska

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

Duane G. Carey

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson

If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.

Philokalia

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I have never agreed to the word of creative activity. Man does not create. In the best case, he interprets, in a good or bad way; in the worst case, he manipulates, cheats and causes confusion; like in all the walks of life, in art as well...

Sadik Kaceli