Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

Alan Moore

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Sarah Dessen

I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Lee H. Hamilton

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Stephen Jay Gould

I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

Baz Luhrmann

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every... minutest fiber.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn't for the fact that you are the University authorities . . .'

Terry Pratchett

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Edward Abbey

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Kristen Stewart

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

Orson Scott Card