"To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man."

“I think we live in an era of problems that, if you step back and look at them globally, can't be solved. One response to that is, "Oh well, it's all hopeless. The natural world is getting wrecked, birds are disappearing, the planet is warming and so anything we might do on a smaller scale is meaningless."”

“In order to develop love - universal love, cosmic love, whatever you would like to call it one must accept the whole situation of life as it is, both the light and the dark, the good and the bad. One must open oneself to life, communicate with it.”

“[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.”

“After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.”

“I didn't really know much about the Houdinis when I started. As soon as they sent me the script, I wanted to find out everything I could about Bess. Luckily, I have a really wonderful friend named Michael Mitnick, who's a writer. He was a magician as a child, and that led him to the theater, which led to drama school, and he writes films now. Magic was really his thing, growing up, so he put me in touch with his magic teacher who is a real Houdini expert.”

“The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.”

Source : John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

“I love to make music and stay grounded.”

“History admires the wise, but elevates the brave.”

Source : Edmund Morris (2011). “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Modern Library