When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Soren Kierkegaard

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to

Aristotle

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment

Voltaire

If I don't need the money, I don't work.

James Spader

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

Charles Franklin Kettering

I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Emmet Fox

In the aftermath of the recent wave action in the Indian Ocean, even the archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williamson [], proved himself a latter-day Voltairean by whimpering that he could see how this might shake belief in a friendly creator. Williamson is of course a notorious fool, who does an almost perfect imitation of a bleating and frightened sheep, but even so, one is forced to rub one's eyes in astonishment. Is it possible that a grown man could live so long and still have his personal composure, not to mention his lifetime job description, upset by a large ripple of seawater?

Christopher Hitchens

The perfect no-stress environment is the grave. When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

Greg Anderson