Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

Michel de Montaigne

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

Claudia Black

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

Ellen Barkin

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

Peter Lynch

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Maya Angelou

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Hubert Humphrey

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

Charles Darwin

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.

Bertrand Russell

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

John Stuart Mill

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

Edward Hopper

If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical reality, we shall not fail.

Henry A. Wallace

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

Walt Whitman