My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Bobby Scott

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Paulo Coelho

Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?

Kate Millet

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn and in terms of acting, there's a lot to learn. The bigger culture you have in life, the better actor you'll be. You'll have more to pull on.

Jacqueline Bisset, Interview on

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Timothy Leary, "Evening Standard

I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.

Sterling Marlin

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Dennis Prager

errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

Guy Pearce

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on -- into the dustbin of history!

Leon Trotsky

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Giacomo Casanova