Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.

Samuel Johnson

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters.

Randy Quaid

Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

Jack LaLanne

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

Robert Falcon Scott

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Andrew Cohen

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

Sidney Poitier

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Gordon Ramsay

Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Sir Walter Scott