One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TV's all over the world.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

Jane Campion

As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

Mitch Daniels

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Francis Bacon

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

Source Unknown

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Oscar Wilde

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Helen Mirren

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E. Gladstone

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

Mahatma Gandhi

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course. Not my fault. They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning. And there is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bloodshot eye.

Lewis Black

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

You have two voices: the one you speak with and the one you think with. While the former is the one others hear, of greater importance is the one you hear.

Stephen Richards