Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Samuel Johnson

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Christopher Hitchens

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Robert Francis Kennedy

History is a better guide than good intentions.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable.

Carl Nielsen

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Thomas Carlyle

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I

Harold Bloom

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.

George W. Crane

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

Alexander Payne

I quite enjoy science fiction.

Lexa Doig