There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Ben Hecht

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Nothing can come of nothing.

William Shakespeare

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.

Jim Morrison

It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!

John Davidson

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Victor Hugo

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful so compelling that when-in a decade, a century, a millennium-- we grasp it, we will say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How can we have been so blind for so long?

John Wheeler

My mom is painfully sweet she's from Nebraska.

Gabrielle Union

Choosing to love, inspite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Chriscinthia Blount

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Aldous Huxley

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Miriam Makeba