It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.

It is not serving, but servility, that is menial.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

No life if it is properly realized is without its cosmic importance.

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Adventure, without it, why live?

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

I won't go into the details, but I ready myself for the day. I am a high-maintenance type of guy.

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services--from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

It's good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There's no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that.

The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine.

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

All clients think that they are architects.

The best training program in the world is absolutely worthless without the will to execute it properly consistently and with intensity.

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

My roles aren't huge, but it's a start.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

There are many actors I admire, but I always look at people who have done a variety of roles - people such as Simon Russell Beale or Ralph Fiennes.

I started experimenting with jewelry in my 20s - I was playing around with gemstones and painting things in gold leaf, and it turned into this huge obsession for me, so I launched my first jewelry line, Jade Inc.

Whether it's standing backstage with Jennifer Lopez in a dress that I know everyone will be talking about tomorrow... or being there when incredible news breaks, and instead where people sit in front of their TVs and look at it, I'm the person who goes there to bring you the story... It's amazing. It's unbelievable.