To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.

It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of gorgeous alternatives/than to express our sadness.

The natural order will emerge only if we let go of the fear of the disorder, we trust each other.

Twenty-one already, and I still haven't done a thing worth immortality.

Just that one word—sound—sent a strong answering pulse through her body. His tongue curled around syllables that weren’t there, like a promise. This is what you’ll get, if you just let me hear.

Wealth is relative. Some people aren’t really rich

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

Throughout my career I have been pretty successful, I've played for some pretty big teams, represented my country quite a few times, and played for managers without sentiment.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Instead of standing on the shore and proving to ourselves that the ocean cannot carry us, let us venture on its waters just to see.