And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

Mandy Patinkin

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

George Boole

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

William Tecumseh Sherman

When enough insane people scream in harmony that they really are healthy, they can actually start to believe themselves. Or put even more simply: people with overlapping delusions get along wonderfully.

Daniel Mackler

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

N. K. Jemisin

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Plato

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Joan Borysenko

People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Kirk Douglas

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Ludwig Borne