Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

I'm a journeyman actor, and I don't ever want to forget that. With romantic-lead dreams.

William Sanderson

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

Stephen Hawking

Write it as a dream, read it as a goal.

Sakurai Sho

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

W. Winwood Reade

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

Bruno Bettelheim

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else's pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world.

Frederick Buechner

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

Donna Rice

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural.

Michael Behe

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Jean Paul

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Ian Mcewan