Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

John Locke

I love people who just started making movies - first-timers, second-timers. They take chances.

Chazz Palminteri

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law. That would lead to anarchy.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anthony Doerr

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Florence King

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

Natalie Portman

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Edith Sitwell

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Theodore Dreiser

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Van Morrison

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Emil Zatopek