“I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again”— Aaron Sorkin, imdb.com
“Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com
“It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge — and has to content oneself with dreaming.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.”— Akira Kurosawa, imdb.com
“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places.…”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“The only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.”— Temple Grandin, goodreads.com
“I was attending the American Society of Animal Science meetings when the flood occurred. I first learned about it when I read about it on the front page of USA Today, a national newspaper. I grieved for the "dead" books, the same way most people grieve for a dead relative. The destruction of books u…”— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org
“Even today, romantic love is just not part of my life. And you know what? That's okay with me.”— Temple Grandin, amazon.com
“We must accept our existence in as wide a sense as can be; everything, even the unheard-of, must be possible within it.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...what we call fate originates in ourselves in humankind, and does not work on us from the outside.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...there are many indications that it is the future that enters into us like this, in order to be transformed within us, long before it actually occurs. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the apparently uneventful and static moment when our futur…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com