Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling

Abraham Lincoln

Ah, how skilful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love's behest Far excelleth all the rest!published in The Seaside and the Fireside

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

Samuel L. Jackson

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Russell Baker

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

Stanislav Grof

Hope is the dream of a waking man.

Aristotle

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

Robert Anton Wilson

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.

Paul Fix

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt