Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Henry David Thoreau

The purpose in life is to collaborate for a common cause; the problem is nobody seems to know what it is.

Gerhard Gschwandtner

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

George Orwell

They pick all of us out, and then they decide, they computerize, decide if they like it or don't like it, and then they go home, and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.

Alice Cooper

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Sumner

Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Henry David Thoreau

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

LaoTzu

The only victory over love is flight.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Edna Ferber

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

Simone Weil

I was the only Christian on the cast, but that was cool because we all respected each others talent and mostly they respected me a lot even though I was the only Christian.

Victoria Jackson

I've never gone to acting school and I never will, so I'm learning about the business from the people who are in the business. It doesn't seem like I work at all. And the unknown is always exciting.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers