All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

Michael Crichton

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

Dennis Quaid

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.

Denis Waitley

The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all.

Timothy Radcliffe

Statistics is the grammar of science.

Karl Pearson

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Coco Chanel

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Irvine Welsh

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Socrates

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

George Eliot

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

Meister Eckhart

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko