How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Steven Spielberg

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Harold MacMillan

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

David Mamet

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind

Mahatma Gandhi

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

Thomas A. Edison

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

Dale Dauten

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Douglas Horton

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

No good deed goes unpunished.(attributed aphorism)

Clare Boothe Luce, The Book of L

Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He has sacrificed himself. Behold the man. And he says to me the ingrate, to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette! He carried me away through all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Cosette, that man is an angel!

Victor Hugo

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Christine Feehan