When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

Alan Watts

Why is anyone lovable - if it be not that God put His love into each of us?

Fulton J. Sheen

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

Ogden Nash

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.

Jaron Lanier

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Robert De Niro

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey

It is safest to be moderately base -- to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Sydney Smith

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Thomas Huxley

The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

Eoin Colfer

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

Winnie the Pooh

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Voltaire