All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

William Hazlitt

Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true.

Stephen King

The course of true love never did run smooth.

William Shakespeare

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon, Quoted in: Beatles

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

Henry David Thoreau

It's every little girl's dream to have an exact look-alike doll. It's amazing.

Bindi Irwin

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

At Casablanca we did 'Midnight Express,' 'Flashdance,' and 'The Deep.' My willingness for risk has always been my strength.

Peter Guber

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

Randy Newman

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

Jeffery Deaver

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

Peter A. Cohen

Be good, or be good at it.

Lil Wayne