As Plato sometimes speaks of the divine love, it arises not out of indigency, as created love does, but out of fullness and redundancy; it is an overflowing fountain, and that love which descends upon created being is a free efflux from the almighty source of love; and it is well pleasing to him that those creatures which he hath made should partake of it.

I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

Parker Posey

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

Thomas Carlyle

Yes, I'm happy, in human terms.

Albert Camus

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Jean Piaget

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

Beth Ditto

One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

Aldous Huxley

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian

Albert Camus

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

Tim Cook

Marriage is wonderful.

Jennifer Aniston

The essence of good government is trust.

Kathleen Sebelius

I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.

Don DeLillo