Peter Ustinov

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

It is our responsibilities not ourselves that we should take seriously

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool, an optimist must know what a sad place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Pat Conroy

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Without music and dance, life is a journey through a desert.

I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

Rick Riordan

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.

Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?"
"Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?"
"Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we're related for better or for worse...and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

John Wayne

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

You're short on ears and long on mouth.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. 

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

John Green II

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

J. M. Barrie

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

I'm not young enough to know everything. 

Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands!

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family:
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Lois Lowry

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing.

It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?