The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.

Clarendon

You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltzer

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Edward Dahlberg

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

Percy Wynham Lewis

An actor is only merchandise.

Chow YunFat

Who knows the life which does not burn its own time moments?

Sorin Cerin

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

Shia LaBeouf

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Edward W. Howe

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them.

Phillip E. Johnson

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Virginia Woolf

To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.

Emily Dickinson