Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds (after inflation). So which is the riskier asset?

Hindsight plays tricks on our minds.

The current financial crisis calls out for new products and services as well as more, not less, information about what is safe and profitable in the future environment.

Kindness kindled the love in human heart.

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

People like Mr. Hitchens are ready to fight to the last drop of other people's blood, and it's utterly and completely contemptible.

I acted for so many years and sat on a million sets and worked with a million different directors so that is to me some of the best training you can get.

I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.