Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Every man is a new method.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

James Stewart

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Vittorio Alfieri

When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Rico Rodriguez

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have that same feeling again. The first time anything happens to you - your first love, your first success - the second one is never the same.

Lauren Bacall

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

Socrates

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

Rudyard Kipling

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out percieved flaws in God's art.

Steve Maraboli

Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort