I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

Michael Behe

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Edith Wharton

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

Maury Amsterdam

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte

My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.

Mark Warner

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.

Jane Austen

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

Charles Kingsley

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

Angela Davis

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Alan Alda

Popularity? It is glory's small change

Victor Hugo

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence

Aristotle

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

James Barrie