In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Tony Robbins

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

Gary Ross

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

Charlie Finley

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Neil Gaiman

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Gore Vidal

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Dean Koontz

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

Norman Mailer

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Harold Rosenberg

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

Samuel Johnson

Society is like a schoolmaster who estimates boys according to their conformity to a standard that is easiest for running a school.

Henry Sedgwick

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain