To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

Leo Tolstoy

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Elizabeth Kostova

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine De SaintExupery

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Ivan Turgenev

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.

Virginia Woolf

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

Chris Pine

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson

Every cloud engenders not a storm

William Shakespeare

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.

Thomas Jefferson

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Nadine Gordimer

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Pat Riley