I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

Ken Burns

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

Eliot Spitzer

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

No one wants to die. Even people who wanna go to heaven don't wanna die to get there.

Steve Jobs

I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ. Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. He was my model, Churchill said. I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall.

Adlai Stevenson, about his last

Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.

Orson Scott Card

This story is slightly immoral, but so, I guess, are stories based on truth

Ring Lardner

A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

W. Somerset Maugham

I make Chris' ideas come to life.

Paul Grupe

In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

Bill Watterson

Truth is not a prerequisite for belief, whilst belief is often times a catalyst for searching for one's own truth.

S.R.

Psychology is the science of mental life

William James