"All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs."

“We will never agree to give up Jerusalem, a united city under Israeli sovereignty, and only Israeli. We will not accept a terrorist Palestinian state, we will not accept an agreement based on the 67 lines.”

“I don't mind talking about acting. I don't have anything interesting to say about it, but it's interesting talking about it.”

“The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.”

“Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.”

Source : Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

“Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.”

“There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.”

“What, really, is wanted from a neighborhood? Convenience, certainly, an absence of major aggravation, to be sure. But perhaps mostof all, ideally, what is wanted is a comfortable background, a breathing space of intermission between the intensities of private life and the calculations of public life.”

Source : Joseph Epstein (1979). “Familiar territory: observations on American life”, Oxford University Press

“I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.”