True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Nor is the people's judgement always true;The most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden, Absalom and Achitop

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Emma Thompson

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

Sir Hardy Amies

I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.

Joseph Ernst Renan

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 
 Like a Colossus, and we petty men
 Walk under his huge legs and peep about
 To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
 Men at some time are masters of their fates:
 The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars

William Shakespeare

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Edwin Louis Cole

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

Susan Orlean

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Adlai Stevenson

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato