The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

Moliere

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

Ethan Hawke

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A. R. Ammons

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

Sir Laurence Olivier

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Aristotle

Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.

Flora Lewis

Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

Mahatma Gandhi

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Alan Cumming

I think I can change the game.

Venus Williams