Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

Sean Hannity

breaking the heart of someone you still love is a rare horror, not funny to anyone, except perhaps Satanand even his pleasure would be spoiled by not having had a hand in it, by the dumb, wasteful accident of the thing. The Devil wants meaning just like the rest of us.

Glenn Duncan

The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.

Dag Hammarskjold

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Penelope Cruz

The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

Deb Caletti

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.

Ezra Pound

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

Mahatma Gandhi

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

Chauncey Wright

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

Vera Farmiga

I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.

John Waters