Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.

Kellan Lutz

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Maya Lin

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Thomas Hardy

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Paulo Coelho

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Bertrand Russell

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

George Santayana

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.

Ron Fournier

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Mark Twain

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

Katharine Hepburn

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Izaak Walton