At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.

If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Ronald Reagan

I decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

Richard Dreyfuss

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.

Blaise Pascal

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really - taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a pre-carious balance, it's a wonder we do it at all.

Libba Bray

proclaimed Donne, , and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each other's tragedies.

Neil Gaiman

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Plato

Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.

Christopher Knight

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

Mike Huckabee

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.

Donald H. Mcgannon

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw