The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Boothe Luce

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

Christopher Hitchens

The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.

Bhagavad Gita

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Leo Tolstoy

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Jules Renard

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

Robert Jordan

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tatyana Tolstaya

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

Havelock Ellis

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Hannah Arendt

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.

Randy Alcorn

Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.

Francois Rabelais