Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

Richard Dawkins

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

Steve Guttenberg

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Ellen Willis

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Francis Bacon

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Russell C. Taylor

If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.

Cassandra Clare

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Famke Janssen

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

Plutarch

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue.

Paula Deen

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Gerald Jampolsky

Be who you are regardless of where you are

Lolly Daskal

Stop your complaining, stop your doctoring; this tumult has arisen and is direct from above, and it will not cease till it makes all the adversaries of the Word like the mud on the streets. But it is sad to have to remind a theologian like you of these things, as if you were a pupil instead of one who ought to be teaching others.

Martin Luther King Jr.