When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.

A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if her were rich.

John Jacob Astor

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Liz Phair

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

Joaquin Phoenix

Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Radhanath Swami

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today....

Benjamin Franklin

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

Proverb

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

General Motors spends more on health care than steel.

Kathleen Sebelius

No water, no life. No blue, no green.

Sylvia Earle

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

John Prescott

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!

Jim Carrey