If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

Christopher Hitchens

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Doris Lessing

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Frank Moore Colby

Miracles only happen if you believe in miracles.

Paulo Coelho

That was my first lesson from Ben-Gurion. Then I saw him making peace, and I saw him making war. He mobilized me before the war. The man was a very rare combination between a real intellectual and a born leader. There is a contradiction between the two.

Shimon Peres

The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.

Norman O. Brown

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Martin Puryear

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Augustine Birrell

I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay.

Kathleen Turner

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Robert H. Schuller

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Stana Katic