I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.

A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.

Carly Fiorina

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

Aldous Huxley

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

Errol Morris

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Wayne Coyne

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

Ron White

Careless seems the great Avenger; historyÂ’s pages but record

James Russell Lowell

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Jeffrey Kluger

And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have a weapons sweep and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.

William Jefferson Clinton, inter

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Aaron Carter