In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

Sean Penn

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

C.S. Lewis

At times of distress, we all like to recall the advice of fathers and mothers. The best advice my father gave me was to keep faith and deep confidence in the potential of the Greek people nurture the belief that they can do things.

George Papandreou

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Mary Little

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Calvin S. Hall

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

George Bernard Shaw

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

Dax Shepard

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

Oscar Wilde

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

Martin Freeman