Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

Raymond Chandler

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write, but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Will Rogers

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Stephen King

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

Richard Cobden

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Sir Walter Scott

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

Mary Baker Eddy

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Phil Cousineau

A man who doubts himself shouldn't have to try too hard for too long, not until he's seasoned.

Stephen King

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

J. B. Priestley

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

Sam Worthington

What a betrayal of man's dignity. He uses the highest gift, his mind, only ten percent, and his emotions and instincts ninety percent.

Albert Einstein

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau