If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Bernard Cornwell

Without humility there can be no humanity.

John Buchan

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said,

Joseph Campbell

In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us.

Aldous Huxley

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Barry Goldwater

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.

George Eliot

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Tom Hiddleston

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

Music is my home.

Jennifer Hudson

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

Richard Petty