People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, ie., everybody, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

Terry Pratchett

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Joseph Addison

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead!In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility:But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger.

William Shakespeare

Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

Stephen King

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Marina Abramovic

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

Richard King

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

e. e. cummings

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Deepak Chopra