"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."

“I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.”

“Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.”

Source : Sermon in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 15 May 1910

“Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve.”

“I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.”

Source : "Kristen Bell Talks Veronica Mars, the Show's Journey From the Small Screen to Theaters, Returning to the Character, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

“Judges don't age. Time decorates them.”

Source : Enid Bagnold (1970). “Four plays”

“I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too”

Source : "R.v.R. : Being an Account of the Last Years and the Death of One Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn". Book by Hendrik Willem van Loon, 1930.

“But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.”

“I'm not a do-gooder. It embarrassed me to be classified as a humanitarian. I simply take part in activities that I believe in.”

Source : "Gregory Peck - the 'Decent Man of Hollywood'" by Richard Alleyne, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 13, 2003.