"The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write."

“He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.”

“Hasn't there ... been a little too much zeal in our reproof of children and friends for yielding to the temptations we ourselves find it most difficult to resist? We punish where we can least afford to sympathize. Of all the horrors of the daily news, it seems hardest to imagine the kind of cruelty that is intensified by the pain of its victims, but whenever we feel sympathy would weaken us, we are a little closer to the torturer.”

“Once in a while a good opportunity would come along, like the first 'Playhouse 90 ever to air - working in television afforded me my best opportunities. The (film) industry was going through such turmoil at the time - studios didn't know where to go anymore, they were falling apart, television was there. They didn't know what kind of films people wanted. The European films were making a huge impact because those films wanted real people in real situations.”

“I've given up on being accurately portrayed in the media.”

“[Fireheart]mewed,"It's not my place to judge you." Greystripe looked up as Fireheart went on." Greystripe, whatever you decide to do, I will always be your friend.”

“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”

Source : "Fictional character: Cypher Raige". "After Earth", www.imdb.com. May 28, 2013.

“Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.”

Source : "Praises 'Politics Of Empathy,' Condemns Falsehoods That Led To War, Financial Crisis". John Legend's commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Science, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2009.

“All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.”