Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.

Plato

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

Christopher Walken

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Owen Felltham

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

Benjamin Franklin

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Aldous Huxley

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan P. Smith

Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Charles Dickens

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

J. Paul Getty

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

Sherman Alexie

I think the biggest disease this world suffers fromis people feeling unloved.

Princess of Wales Diana

Dreams are pathways for the heart. - Reminim the gnome

T. William Watts