It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Robin Williams

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Tupac Shakur

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

Truth is simply a compliment paid to sentences seen to be paying their way.

Richard Rorty

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.

J. D. Salinger

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

Mahatma Gandhi

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

Michelle Wie

The last time doesn't exist. It's only this time. And everything is going to be different this time. There's only now.

Bill Murray

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her; but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cars in order to win the game.

Voltaire

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

Cat Stevens

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean de la Bruyere