Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground. You trample upon things. When a whole society moves forward, this trampling is on a much bigger scale; and each thing that you disturb, each vested interest which you want to remove, stands as an obstacle.

The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things , objectively, and to be able to separate this picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

Erich Fromm

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Ice Cube

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims.

Ezra Miller

It was such ecstacy to dream, and dream - till you got a bite.A scorpion bite. Then the first duty was to get up out of the grass and kill the scorpion; and the next to bathe the bitten place with alcohol or brandy; and the next to resolve to keep out of the grass in the future. Then came an adjournment to the bedchamber and the pastime of writing up the day's journal with one hand and the destruction of mosquitoes with the other - a whole community of them at a slap. Then, observing an enemy approaching - a hairy tarantula on stilts - why not set the spittoon on him? It is done, and the projecting ends of his paws give a luminous idea of the magnitude of his reach. Then to bed and become a promenade for a centipede with forty-two legs on a side and every foot hot enough to burn a whole through a raw-hide. More soaking with alcohol, and a resolution to examine the bed before entering it, in future. Then wait, and suffer, till all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood have crawled in under the bar, then slip out quickly, shut them in and sleep peacefully on the floor till morning. Meantime, it is comforting to curse the tropics in occasional wakeful intervals.

Mark Twain

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

George Lucas

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Herbert Hoover

I spend a lot of time reading.

Bill Gates

Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.

Jack London

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

Miguel de Icaza

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Beverly Sills