Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Virgil Thomson

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked.With your own voice,' he said.

Erica Jong

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Dr. Seuss

Sem indivíduos, vemos apenas números: mil mortos, cem mil mortos, «as mortes podem chegar a um milhão». Com as histórias individuais, as estatísticas transformam-se em pessoas - mas até isso é mentira, pois as pessoas continuam a sofrer em números que são, em si mesmos, entorpecedores e desprovidos de significado.

Neil Gaiman

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Dustin Hoffman

I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Stephen Hawking

While we look not a that things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

Bible

Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!

Leo Tolstoy

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Balance is the enemy of art.

Richard Eyre