The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Henry David Thoreau

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Wolfgang Puck

I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.

Isaiah Mustafa

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life.

Steve Guttenberg

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

Martina Hingis

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Billy Graham

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Paul Auster

A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

Samuel Butler

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald