Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.

Rodney Stark

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

Fiona Shaw

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Tom Peters

Anarchy is the ultimate destination of any positively evolving society.

Eric Parslow

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

Carlos Castaneda

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

George Eliot

Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

Source Unknown

I don't change. The things around me change.

Jeremy Renner

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

Elizabeth Moss

To some it may be a thrill to be known, to me it's a thrill to start a friendship even up.

Christopher Knight

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Malcolm X