I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

Just writing a lot doesn't necessarily make you a better writer. You have to hear yourself as a writer, and the best way to do that is to read your writing out loud.

My dad was on 'Zombieland,' and I love that movie. So yeah, I think I like the horror genre!

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.

Natural gas is the future. It is here.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Is the president purposefully using propaganda and hyperbole to garner the American public for support?

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead.

I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl - when I see it I'm like, oh my God - is these little tight boxers. Don't get me wrong, g-strings are fine, but those cover a little, to where it's just enough.

When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface.

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: 'The Ferrari is paid for,' 'The mortgage is assumable,' and 'It's just a cold sore!

Some things can be done as well as others.

Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

One day he'll realize he is and was wrong. But that's for him to figure out. You can't change people or make them realize things they don't want to see.

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

You don't have to tip anybody, anywhere, anything. You do so only because you want to, in appreciation for service well-rendered.

Ive learnt to gather simplicity from grasshoppers. I like their naive indecisive minds never knowing exactly when to stop chirping and I envy their ability to be able to mingle with the green

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

Hesitation only enlarges magnifies the fear. Take action promptly. Be decisive.

I would love to play a nun. I used to want to be one when I was a kid.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.