A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.

When it comes down to it, it's about who you know, and who's a fan. It's about whether you're the right age, whether you're hot or not, whether the studio is into you or not.

Marlee Matlin

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker

I love being a dad. I just love it.

Jerry Seinfeld

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.

Tony Kushner

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Chuck Palahniuk

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

Mehmet Oz

There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

Debra Winger

His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

Kurt Vonnegut

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Islom Karimov

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Gale Norton

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin