Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Dorothy Day

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

Laura Carmichael

But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed.

Albert Einstein

The fundamental question for the United States is how it can cooperate to help meet the basic needs of the people of the hemisphere despite the philosophical disagreements it may have with the nature of particular regimes. It must seek pragmatic ways to help people without necessarily embracing their governments. It should recognize that diplomatic relations are merely practical conveniences and not measures of moral judgment.

Nelson Rockefeller

The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.

Phyllis McGinley

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Rutherford B. Hayes

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. Accepting his Independent Spirit Award

Sean Penn

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Juan Ramon Jiminez

I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.

Jennifer Garner

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Charles de Gaulle

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare