If I had succumbed to peer pressure I would still be trolloping about society as a male and probably have just offed myself by now.

Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?""Yes, I suppose I do, " Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.

Foremost, step one could take is avoiding the cheap behaviour of compromising principles with decorated lies which assails the moral power of common sense.

One lesson I've learned--worry doesn't change tomorrow, it only robs today of its joy."-Charley

She felt tears slip from beneath her lashes, no matter how she tried to blink them back. Her heart was ablaze. It seemed that her entire life had led to this man, this moment of unexpressed love.

Brave is doing the right thing, because it is the right thing to do.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

The relationship between the student and teacher is ultimately important. In higher spirituality we don't study a subject as much as a person.

I love acting, and it was really important to me to give it a real shot.

Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.