Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions.

I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.

Nathan Fillion

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Thucydides

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Kevin Smith

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.

Chaim Potok

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Kahlil Gibran

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

Frank Black

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Cissy Houston

Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.

Sicilian Proverb

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Elijah Wood