Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

Gabrielle Union

But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

Leo Tolstoy

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Henry Cabot Lodge

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Publilius Syrus

Thank you for making this day necessary.

Yogi Berra

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

Johann von Goethe

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

John Mayer

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

Zachary Levi

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

American Indian Proverb, Kiowa

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Sandra Bernhard