If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world.

Medard Boss

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Voltaire

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

Frances McDormand

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

Stephen King

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Kevin J. Anderson

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

Samuel Butler

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

Thomas Carlyle

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

Jackson Rathbone

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

Jack Klugman

A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeeds, his belief never regain the untroubled character, and the settled place in his mind, which it had at first.

David Stove