When undertaking marriage, everyone must be the judge of his own thoughts, and take counsel from himself.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Elias Canetti

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it's true, and I think that's what this movie is about.

John Goodman

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Confucius

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde

Ms. Bennett, do you know who I am? I am not accustomed to being spoken to in such a manner.

Jane Austen

It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.

Daniel Berrigan

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

Al Lewis

To permit this gross new revelation to fade, or be forgiven, would be to devalue our most essential standard of what constitutes the unpardonable. And for what? For the reputation of a man who turns out to be not even a Holocaust denier but a Holocaust affirmer. There has to be a moral limit, and either this has to be it or we must cease pretending to ourselves that we observe one.

Christopher Hitchens

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Jean de la Bruyere