I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.

We must depend upon the Boy Scout Movement to produce the MEN of the future.

Daniel Carter Beard

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Claire Bloom

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'

Muhammad Ali

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caleb Carr

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar -- you pretend it's not there.

Daryl Hannah

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

Kim Stanley Robinson

While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

C.S. Lewis

I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The gods were great, but what good was greatness if you didn't love?

Lev Grossman

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

G. K. Chesterton

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

Thornton Wilder

Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what one can touch, and look at. My gods dwell in temples made with hands; and within the circle of actual experience is my creed made perfect and complete: too complete, it may be, for like many or all of those who have placed their heaven in this earth, I have found in it not merely the beauty of heaven, but the horror of hell also.

Oscar Wilde