After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious. . . . Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

Franz Grillparzer

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

Armand Assante

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Victor Hugo

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.

Herman Melville

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

John Green

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

Aaron Yoo

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

E. Stanley Jones

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

Dick Butkus