"Man knows so much and does so little."

“I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.”

“People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?”

“I'm down to a bottle of wine a day, but my hands still shake a bit.”

“The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.”

“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice”

Source : Chris Hedges (2011). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.92, Hachette UK

“Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.”

“So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.”

“Most actors nowadays are models turned actors. That's why a lot of young actors are terrible. You have to learn how to act. It is not something that you can just do.”

Source : "Boy Meets World: Carrie's Ansel Elgort Plays Muse" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.