I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Paulo Coelho

I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid had to express as truthfully as possible the individual emotions and reactions of the writer.

Langston Hughes

I'm a movie nut. I go to the movies probably twice a week, and if I'm not doing anything at night, I'm usually watching a movie or two.

Dominic Monaghan

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

David Blaine

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

William Shakespeare

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

Terry Waite

Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Source Unknown

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

Blaise Pascal

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

Would you have wished more, or fewer, anarchists around in the Thousand Year Reich or any of the other fantasies of hierarchy?

Christopher Hitchens