Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

Martin Van Buren

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

Joe Morton

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Sarah McLachlan

Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Frank Rich

The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

Daina Chaviano

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Shia LaBeouf

We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.

Gerald R. Ford

I Worked in the family auto body shop, lifted weights, and rode a few Victory Sports Indoors.

Ben Jackson

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the