The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Stephen Collins

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua L. Liebman

Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.

Juvenal

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Ezra Pound

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Austin O'Malley

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Jonathan Swift

It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

Warwick Davis

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

William Tecumseh Sherman

There be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me.

Lord Byron

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Albert Einstein

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Frederick Douglass

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius