I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.

Louis L'Amour

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Roger Ascham

Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.

Johann Joachim Winckelmann

I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools.

Philip Pullman

With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better.

Leo Tolstoy

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

George Eliot

I just want my relationship to be more for myself rather than a public statement.

Cynthia Nixon

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Jack Kevorkian

The desire to write grows with writing.

Desiderius Erasmus

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it'd be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.

Callan McAuliffe

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Philipus A. Paracelsus