To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.
Brian Greene
I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.
Lou Holtz
One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
Al Yankovic
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Lorraine Hansberry
Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.
Elizabeth McCracken
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke