The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Christopher Hitchens

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neil

I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.

Betty White

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

John Maynard Keynes

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

Harri Holkeri

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Phaedrus

Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Theodor Adorno

I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

Chief Joseph

There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead.

Jeffrey Kluger

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe