Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

Rebecca Hall

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Oscar Wilde

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

J.K. Rowling

I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.

Adam Levine

The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Josh Billings

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

Rick Warren

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest

Abraham Lincoln

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Camille Anna Paglia

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Chinese Proverb