We want to do for 'Hamlet' what Baz Luhrmann did for 'Romeo and Juliet' in terms of like a really cool kind of re-imagining.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

Herbert Read

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

Terry Pratchett

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Plato

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.

Lewis Thomas

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Martin Luther King Jr.

The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.

Captain Jean-Luc Picard

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by the law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, freely exercised.

Stephen Ambrose

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

Doug Horton

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann von Goethe

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

Francois Fenelon

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Florence Nightingale