Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

Bill Murray

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it.

David Deutsch

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

John Muir

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

Christina Aguilera

In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain.

Walter Dwight, The Saving Sense

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

Thich Nhat Hanh

There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness.

Kurt Vonnegut

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

Phyllis Diller