"...it's what charity truly means, that compassion for each other's vulnerability"

“I like making images that from a distance seem kind of seductive, colorful, luscious and engaging, and then you realize what you're looking at is something totally opposite. It seems boring to me to pursue the typical idea of beauty, because that is the easiest and the most obvious way to see the world. It's more challenging to look at the other side.”

“A race of altruists is necessarily a race of slaves. A race of free men is necessarily a race of egoists.”

“Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.”

Source : Jean Cocteau, Margaret Crosland (1972). “Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings”, Owen

“You can't believe how pro gay and pro freedom of speech I am. I'm way out beyond anyone on the Left. And as for fiscal conservatism and small government, I'm so much further to the right than Glenn Beck. Nobody is further left and further right than me. As I'm fond of saying, if you want to find utopia, take a sharp right on money and a sharp left on sex and it's straight ahead.”

“I can't feel my face. I mean I can touch it. But I can't feel it inside.”

“I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.”

Source : "'Friday Night Lights' Emmy nominees Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton reflect on first impressions, lasting friendship, and saying goodbye". Interview with Michael Ausiello, ew.com. August 5, 2010.

“The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.”

“It's businesses versus big government. We don't need big government. We need a more efficient, lean government, and that's exactly the kind of government we intend to deliver.”