It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.

Colin Hanks

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

Honore de Balzac

By nature, men love newfangledness.

Geoffrey Chaucer

To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

Milton A. Rothman, The Science G

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

Erich Fromm

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

J.K. Rowling

He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

Omar Sharif

It cannot be denied that for a society which has to create scarcity to save its members from starvation, to whom abundance spells disaster, and to whom unlimited energy means unlimited power for war and destruction, there is an ominous cloud in the distance though at present it be no bigger than a man's hand.

Sir Arthur Eddington

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Jim Henson

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Gustav Mahler