To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

John Updike

A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.

Charles Dickens, Life And Advent

After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

Summer Glau

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

John Irving

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

Kurt Vonnegut

The music stuff is just a hobby.

Tom Felton

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at secondhand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at secondhand from other nonexaminers, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Mark Twain

A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

Source Unknown

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

I love a challenge and the last four years it has all come to fruition and it has been wonderful.

Sarah Brightman

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.

Mary Lou Williams