There are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Source Unknown

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Jodi Picoult

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Mark Twain

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Steven Brust

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

Kin Hubbard

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

William J. Clinton

My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

Her soul is Alive. And we are drawn to her.

Stasi Eldredge

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history.

Seann William Scott