A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

Brendan Fraser

If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.

Vin Diesel

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Paul Davies

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Billy Graham

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

David Antin

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

O'er all the hilltops Is quiet now, In all the treetops Hearest thou Hardly a breath; The birds are asleep in the trees: Wait; soon like these Thou too shalt rest.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

Henry David Thoreau

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it. In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it. Of course, you seldom, if ever, see the pure state.

Richard Hamming