I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

Robert B. Parker

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Bertrand Russell

I believe that the greatest truths of the universe don't lie outside, in the study of the stars and the planets. They lie deep within us, in the magnificence of our heart, mind, and soul. Until we understand what is within, we can't understand what is without.

Anita Moorjani

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

JeanLuc Godard

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Mark Twain

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

George Bernard Shaw

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Eoin Colfer

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Frank Knox

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

Jamie Foxx

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

Justin Timberlake

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Leo Tolstoy