To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.

Carl Sagan

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Martin Luther

Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love.

Thomas Fuller

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Leo Buscaglia

There is, therefore, only one categorical imperative. It is: Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

David Friedman

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

Tony Kushner

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

Gail Simmons

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Leo Tolstoy

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Victoria Woodhull

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson