People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.

Dave Matthews

Our first and last love is self-love.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career.

Albert Camus

She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.

Margot Asquith

Who said, 'All Time's delightHath she for narrow bed;Life's troubled bubble broken'? ---That's what I said.

Walter de la Mare

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.

Olympia Dukakis

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.

Christian Bale

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Jon McGregor

All my life with all my heart I wanted the union of Crete and Greece. I wanted it to be sustained by profound mutual affection. I swear that was my only desire.... Greece will never see me again.

Eleftherios Venizelos

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

Victor Cruz

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb