I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Honore de Balzac

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

Martin Feldstein

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Desmond Tutu

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

Source Unknown

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Mark Hyman

Old age though despised, is coveted by all.

Proverb

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Charlie Sheen

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Samuel Johnson