America is, therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's history shall reveal itself. It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical lumber-room of Old Europe.

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

You don't have to suffer to be a poet adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Jose Marti

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Robert Browning

See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse therefore choose life.

Moses

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

Sam Harris

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer less fun and less money.

Shia LaBeouf

But the reason I became, why I wanted to be in the business was because there was Midnight Cowboy.

Jodie Foster

Marriage is like a formality for me.

David Copperfield

In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted

Bertrand Russell

To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.

John H. Patterson