I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.

George Linnaeus Banks, What I Li

There will be no peace so long as God remains unseated at the conference table.

William M. Peck

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Lee Tergesen

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Aristotle

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Rumi

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.

Stephen King

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Angela Carter

I'd kiss a frog even if there was no promise of a Prince Charming popping out of it. I love frogs.

Cameron Diaz

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music

Tom Sims

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Iain Banks

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Leo Burnett

If we are exhorted to play simple melodies with beauty rather than difficult ones with error, the same should be applied to writing; simple words greater effect.

Sonia Rumzi