The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ... But so long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and it is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans. To endure uncertainty is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

While you have a future do not live too much in contemplation of your past: unless you are content to walk backward the mirror is a poor guide.

Ambrose Bierce

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true I was raised in a freight car.

Merle Haggard

It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

David Krumholtz

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Aristotle

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones.

Richard Bandler

I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Barack Obama

It's awfully easy to be in love in jail.

Dashiell Hammett

It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't to say are even more important than the things they do.

Jodi Picoult