The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

Blaise Pascal

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Joan Allen

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Daniel Radcliffe

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Benjamin Disraeli

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

Johann von Goethe

I do not trust those who make the vaccines, or the apparatus behind it all to push it on us through fear.

Billy Corgan

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson, "Time", retort

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw