I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

Treat Williams

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Voltaire

the mind is a neural computer

Steven Pinker

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Larry Bird

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

Rick Barnett

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor

Lance Armstrong, interview with

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rather

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.

Wellington Mara

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

Michael D. Higgins

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't want their villain to be thrown at them with green limelight on his face. They want an ordinary human being with failings.

Alfred Hitchcock