People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Do you know the terror of he who falls asleep? To the very toes he is terrified, because the ground gives way under him, and the dream begins.

Friedrich Nietzsche

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Thomas Carlyle

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.

Marge Piercy

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'

Martin Scorsese

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

Plato

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

Please write music like Wagner, only louder.

Samuel Goldwyn

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Isaac Asimov, Omni, November, 19

The bank of love is never bankrupt.

Steve Maraboli

The reality is that we're all in the wilderness, and we have to survive on our own, and things constantly change and if we don't accept that, then we're just trying to fool ourselves. But the beauty of wilderness is that sometimes you can wake up in the morning and feel so sweet and whole.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Oscar Wilde