Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

Bertrand Russell

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

Caroline Kennedy

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

John Locke

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.

Shirley Conran

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

William Lyon Phelps

You can be young without money; but you can't be old without it.

Tennessee Williams

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.

Malcolm X

Time bears away all things, even the mind.

Virgil, Eclogues, Book IX, Line

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

Ronald Reagan

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

Douglas Trumbull

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something -- war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

G. K. Chesterton