No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

we have so much to say, and we shall never say it.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Everyone saves someone at least once. Just as he kills someone at least once. Even though he may not know it.

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

If you don't write it down, it never happened.Cathy (& Jack) Ryan

Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday.

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

I would be very, very bored doing light little comedies for my entire career.

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

It's deep-rooted, the music of being young and dumb, It's never muted, in fact, it's much louder where I'm from.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.