I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies

Mark Twain

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.

Jarod Kintz

Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio.

George Eliot

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Sir Alec Issigonis, The Guardian

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

Corey Feldman

Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.

Josh Billings

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Edmund Waller

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

Ramsey Clark

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

Natalie Portman