My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

Jay-Z

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

Harry Bridges

The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.

Ron Fournier

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Izaak Walton

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

Buddha

Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.

Wayne W Dyer

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

Denis Diderot

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

Michael Sheen

Nothing will come of nothing.

William Shakespeare