"Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few."

-- Cato the Elder

“The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.”
“There are few of us so blind as not to realize that unless the moral force of religious conviction impels, the goal of truth and lasting international cooperation cannot be attained; there are few of us who do not appreciate the vital truth of the words, "If God does not build the house, those who build it build in vain."”
“It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness.”

Source : James Smithson, John Robin McDaniel Irby (1879). “The Scientific Writings of James Smithson”
“You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!”

Source : Gideon Defoe (2012). “The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics”, p.15, Bloomsbury Publishing
“I am confident that we will one day end the scourge of modern slavery, because I believe in those committed to this issue.”
“Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.”
“I can't begin to describe the amount of crap I've taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.”
“In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique”

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