A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

Francis Parkman

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land, so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.

Michael Pollan

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

Walt Whitman

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Mark Twain

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sweet in her green dell the flower of beauty slumbers, Lull'd by the faint breezes sighing through her hair; Sleeps she and hears not the melancholy numbers Breathed to my sad lute 'mid the lonely air.

George Darley

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

Frankie Valli

So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills.

Craig Johnston

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Benjamin Franklin

Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.

Mike Myers