My strength as an actor is in the theater - I know that about myself. Some actors get onstage and vanish, but I'm much better there than I am on screen.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

William Hazlitt

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Louis D. Brandeis

I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.

Sarah Bernhardt, The Memoirs of

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth, or suggests a truth, or expresses a truth which man needs to assent to or to put into practice.

Noah Porter

Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

When we age we shed many skins: ego, arrognace, dominance, self-opionated, unreliable, pessimism, rudeness, selfish, uncaring ... Wow, it's good to be old!

Stephen Richards

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

Nelson Piquet

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Napoleon Bonaparte

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice The Gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

George Farquhar

The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

John Kenneth Galbraith