The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

Samuel Johnson

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Leo Tolstoy

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Horace

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Woodrow Wilson

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

Sam Mendes

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Hannah Arendt

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

Naomi Wolf

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Sharon Shinn

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

George Will

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

Michael Sheen

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Toni Braxton