He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Most of the hits I take come on top of the shoulder pads.

I believe German soldiers are good and decent, and if they did anything wrong it was because of military necessity.

In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.

Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.

I don't like to see a president who is just out campaigning all year long or for the last four years. I'd like to see somebody who's going in the office. In fact, I'd like to not see them because that way you'd be sure that they'd be working.

I don't really go out and do too much like networking and Hollywood events kind of thing. But I do some writing, and I find it helps me as an actor in terms of giving yourself back the power and feeling a bit of strength in that respect.

I am a nobody until I make somebody worthy for everybody.

I love to work out outside. Hiking is such a great workout for your lower body.

When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.

Pippin chooses love and finds a greater sense of himself at the end of all the madness. I relate to him in many ways. I have been through stuff, thought I knew best, and often been proven wrong.

Monday is the key day of the week.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.

Woman and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

I have the same sense of discovery and exhilaration from objects of design and everyday use - I am inspired by the buildings in my city, by park greenery and dazzling store windows, by the jaunty strollers and umbrellas and billboards I walk past. Just strolling our streets, we encounter creativity every single day.