I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

Stephen Dorff

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

C.S. Lewis

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

John Adams

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

Stephen Jay Gould

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

Misty May-Treanor

It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the society in which he lives. It is easy enough, and always profitable, to rail away at national enemies beyond the sea, at foreign powers beyond our borders who question the prevailing order.But the moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home; to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own culture. If the writer is unwilling to fill this part, then the writer should abandon pretense and find another line of work: become a shoe repairman, a brain surgeon, a janitor, a cowboy, a nuclear physicist, a bus driver.

Edward Abbey, Writer's Credo

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Marcus Aurelius

Mysteries are due to secrecy.

Francis Bacon

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

Clarence Darrow

My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind.

Shia LaBeouf