Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

George Clooney

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Scott Thompson

Yeah. I've been pretty fortunate to travel I guess, all around the place.

Ben E. King

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

I'm a misplaced American, but don't know where I was misplaced.

Ruby Wax

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Count Basie

I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to you, because you already know what to expect for the rest of eternity. Nothing more and nothing less.

Lionel Suggs

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Henry David Thoreau

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

Steve Backley