I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

George Santayana

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

Jason Reitman

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Listen, buddy, if I could tell you in a minute what I did, it wouldn't be worth the Nobel Prize.

Richard Feynman, Joking when ask

You have no idea how much nastier I would be if I was not a Catholic. Without supernatural aid I would hardly be a human being.

Evelyn Waugh

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

Vinoba Bhave

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

Patricia Clarkson

Most of the history is a divine work of fiction.

Kedar Joshi

Because dreams are the difference between living...and existing...

Danielle Ackley-McPhail

The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest.

Edouard R. Laboulaye