Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every choice is limited. That's life.

Lauren Oliver

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

Tim Roth

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

E.A. Bucchianeri

Design is everything. Everything!

Paul Rand

Applied properly, it can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

Christopher Paolini

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is.

Donna Lynn Hope

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

Andrew Sullivan

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises -- but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Andrew Bernstein

Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments.

Earl Wilson

Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time.

Sean Penn