Dave Eggers: "He had calm where..."

"He had calm where I had chaos and wisdom where I had just a huge gaping always-moving mouth."

–Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity

John Wesley: "Do all the good..."

Do all the good you can,
In all the ways you can,
To all the souls you can,
In every place you can,
At all the times you can,
With all the zeal you can,
As long as you ever can.

–John Wesley

Hart & Kaufman: "Art is only achieved..."

"Art is only achieved through perspiration... but it helps if you've got a little talent with it."

–Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You (Kolenkhov & Grandpa)

Hart & Kaufman: "Oh, the world's not..."

Grandpa: "Oh, the world's not so crazy... It's the people in it. Life's pretty simple if you just relax... Life is kind of beautiful if you let it come to you. But the trouble is, people forget that."

–Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You (Grandpa's point of view)

Hart & Kaufman: "I'd follow you to..."

Tony: "I'd follow you to the end of the earth."
Alice: "Oh, just the kitchen is enough."

–Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You (Tony & Alice, the young lovers)

Hart & Kaufman: "Well, Sir, here we are..."

Grandpa: "Well, Sir, we've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now, and we're certainly much obliged. Remember, all we ask is to just go along and be happy in our own sort of way. Of course, we want to keep our health but as far as anything else is concerned, we'll leave it to You. Thank You." (Act I)

Grandpa: "Well, Sir, here we are again. We want to say thanks once more for everything You've done for us. Things seem to be going along fine... We've all got our health and as far as anything else is concerned we'll leave it to You. Thank You." (Act III)

–Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You (Grandpa's graces before dinner)

Robert H. Lincoln: "There are two rules..."

"There are two rules for success:
1. Never tell everything you know."

-Robert H. Lincoln

Maurice Sendak: "Oh, there's so many..."

–Maurice Sendak, (06/10/1928 - 05/08/2012) beloved children's book author of Where the Wild Things Are (and many others)

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I am driven by..."

"I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday, and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."

–Neil deGrasse Tyson

Anouk Markovits: "One day, courage might..."

"... one day, courage might call for a bigger self, not for making oneself smaller."

–Anouk Markovits, I Am Forbidden 

Patricia Ellis Herr: "I hate this..."

"I hate this. Nature is cruel... Life is full of pain. I don't want my daughters to ever really know this or understand it, but they must. It is the way things are. To sugarcoat reality is to lie, and I don't lie to my children."

–Patricia Ellis Herr, UP: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure

Patricia Ellis Herr: "What matters is that..."

"What matters is that, for the rest of their lives, both my daughters understand that to reach a goal, they must put one foot in front of the other and persevere. They know that they must expect and prepare for challenges. They know to ignore the naysayers and, instead, to have faith in themselves and their abilities to learn what they need to know. Above all else, they know that little does not mean weak, that girls are indeed strong, and that practically anything is possible."

–Patricia Ellis Herr, UP: A Mother and Daughter's Peakbagging Adventure