Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

Sophocles

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Mary Whitehouse

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Thomas Jefferson

I had called her up a couple of weeks before then, because I had heard this vicious rumour that she did not like the movie. It was very upsetting for me. I am very sensitive to that, because I am portraying her life and did not want her to be unhappy.

Charlize Theron

Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows.

David Grayson

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Dave Matthews

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

Catherine Keener

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Henry Adams

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

Virginia Woolf

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

Orson Scott Card

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.

Thomas Mann