I want a language that speaks the truth.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Abbas Kiarostami

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Iris Murdoch

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

Brigitte Bardot

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Paulo Coelho

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

Toba Beta

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

E. W. Howe

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Eric Heiden

I don't write poetry with the intention of making someone sad but rather to illustrate my own feelings and ideas.

James Dye

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang KaiShek

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg -- a cozy, loving pair.

Herman Melville

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

Mahatma Gandhi

A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called

Carl Sagan