The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

Orson Scott Card

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Donny Osmond

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

J.K. Rowling

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

John Osborne

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

Mary Tyler Moore

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

Boris Johnson

Here was an absolutely compelling road sign. Stay on the road of objective truth - there is objective being and objective value. Stay on the road. There is Truth. There is a Point and Purpose and Essence to it all. Keep searching. You will find it.

John Piper

You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

Gary Ross

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Tom Hanks

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

George Eliot

A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.

Robert Downey Jr.