A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

Samantha Morton

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Christopher Hitchens

Einstein is an analytical mathematician seeking to give a physical interpretation to the conclusions of his mathematical process. In this he is hampered by a load of contradictory and absurd assumptions of the school that he follows, which throws him into all manner of difficulty. Einstein has such a faculty for embracing both sides of a contradiction that one would have to be of the same frame of mind to follow his thought, it is so peculiarly his own. The whole Relativity theory is as easy to follow as the path of a bat in the air at night.

Jeremiah Joseph

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Eric Hoffer

For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.

James Elroy Flecker

I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Terry Pratchett

It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Sir Winston Churchill, Address t

People inspire you, or they drain you. PICK THEM WISELY.

Hans F. Hasen

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

Jason Aldean

I love the shock factors and that Michelle is just OK with every aspect of herself, especially the sexual side.

Alyson Hannigan

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

Pope Benedict XVI