At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?

William Shakespeare

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

Nate Silver

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

I do believe that belief is the most powerful thing we have in this world. So, if we believe in something enough. And we have faith, we can make it a reality. That is basically the basis of my entire career and my entire life.

Corey Feldman

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

Samuel West

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Erma Bombeck

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

Natalie Goldberg

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Leonardo DaVinci

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

David Herbert Lawrence

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.

Alan Cumming