The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

Paulo Coelho

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Albert Einstein

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

W. H. Auden

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

Antonio Tabucchi

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

John W. Gardner

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

Jean Anouilh

There's no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say 'Don't you think it would look nicer...', that director's going to hate your guts. Particularly if it's a good idea.

Peter Mullan

I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

Chris Evans