Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang?

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Suicide creates a monstrous emotional upsurge of shame and guilt. Everyone participates in feeling responsible and even shamed at knowing the suicidal candidate. If these feelings are not healed the vampire of suicidal death can strike again and again.

Ninety-nine percent of pilots that go up never have engine failure, and the 1 percent that do usually land it. But if you're up in the air and something goes wrong, you pull that parachute, and the whole plane goes down slowly.

We were going for simplicity with the Minions and, frankly, I think that's a huge appeal of the characters. They're essentially pills with goggles. A child can draw them quite easily.

God hates a half-devil ten times more than an arch-devil!

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities.

If you've hit a wall or the door has closed, keep looking until you find the window, for there's always a solution.

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

Placing 'amicable' and 'separation' together creates an oxymoron - we don't usually decide to end a partnership until the very sight of our soon-to-be ex fills us with disgust, misery, agony or a combination of all three.

Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.

I want to marry and have kids. The things we all want.

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.

Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days.

Singing seems to be inherent in Filipino, just as it is in my race. That's why I have this affinity with Filipinos.

I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

I'm dying always.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who made a difference in the lives of young people - that I nurtured someone and taught them to pursue their dreams and their careers, to leave a legacy.

You can't be a true winner until you have lost.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.