Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

The President is the people's lobbyist.

Hubert Humphrey

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Sanford I. Weill

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Kevin Patterson

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

Anthony Mackie

You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things.

David R. Hawkins

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

Sydney Smith

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.

James Madison

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of our own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name.

Sam Harris

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Warren Earl Burger, Majority opi

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.

Groucho Marx

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aristotle