I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

Alan Rickman

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

John Dewey

See yourself as you really are.Accept the good and the bad.Only then can you truly share yourself with another.

Velyn Cooper

A wife encourages her husband's egoism in order to encourage her own.

Russell Green

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Arc

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

John Poindexter

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

E. W. Howe

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Rene Russo

I love playing for people.

John Entwistle

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

William Wordsworth