Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be the world.

Our hearts, the war.Her body, the battlefield.

Who wants to read a book when you can blow something up?

Without trust there's no cooperation. And without cooperation there's no progress. History stops.

Pain is necessary. Pain is life. Without pain there can be no joy.

You're never perfectly safe. No human being on Earth ever is or ever was. To live is to risk your life, your heart, everything.

The world existed for a very long time before this particular set of seven billion billion atoms came along and it will go right on after they're scattered up, down and sideways.

The human brain has a marvelous capacity to screen and sort experience, protecting itself against the unbearable.

To conquer, you must endure not just your own suffering but the suffering of others. Indifference is the ultimate evolutionary achievement, the highest rung on nature's ladder.

The bent but unbroken ones.

I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't.

If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better movie.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

Okay let's get this over with, no I'm not seasick, yes I've always been green, No I didn't eat grass as a child.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Sceptics are generally ready to believe anything, provided it is sufficiently improbable.

Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.

But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.