Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Isaac Asimov

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

Sam Mendes

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Kahlil Gibran

The truth will make you odd.

Judy Blume

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Albert Einstein

My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.

John le Carre

Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.

Thomas Hood

There can be no high civility without a deep morality

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'.

Woody Allen

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette