What we wish, that we readily believe.

Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

To remind a man of the good turns you have done him is very much like a reproach.

I am a citizen of the world.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.

The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Close alliances with despots are never safe for free states.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Nothing is easier than self deceit. For what each man wishes that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is more easy than to deceive ones self as our affections are subtle persuaders.

A man is his own easiest dupe for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Clouds cannot cover secret places nor denials conceal truth.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive ones self for what we wish that we readily believe but such expectations are often inconsistent with the real state of things.

Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.

There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.

Everything that I do has to be something new and something challenging, or with people that I want to work with. I take jobs for different reasons.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

I really liked doing a number of the projects and directors, and etc., etc., I knew about half-way through that I would never be doing that again. It's just not me. I really am happy as a part-time film composer, not a full-time film composer.

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

Obamacare is terminal. It is going to fail under the crushing weight of its own flawed design.

Hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's faith.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

As an actor, the toughest thing is being subject to circumstance. Meaning: What scripts are out there that are available?

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Everyone can change.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

Being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home. I couldn't figure out whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three.

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.

When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like.