The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Gary Coleman

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Lowell Thomas

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Alan Watts

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

Theodore Bikel

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Samuel Johnson

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

Leo Rosten

Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool.

Andre Benjamin

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Charles de Montesquieu

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

William Shakespeare

Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.

Tomas Borge