My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

Orson Welles

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

Anthony Michael Hall

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

Adlai Stevenson

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Marge Piercy

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

David Carradine

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Samuel Alexander

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Darrell Royal

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

Christina Hendricks