We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Shana Alexander

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

Joel Edgerton

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Omar Khayyam

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Confucius

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

William Shakespeare

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

Mindy Kaling

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

George Savile

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?

Richard Dawkins

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Friedrich Nietzsche