"I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted."

“It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.”

“Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?”

“The easier an experience, or the more entrenched, or the more familiar, the fainter our sensation of it becomes. This is true of chocolate and marriages and hometowns and narrative structures. Complexities wane, miracles become unremarkable, and if we're not careful, pretty soon we're gazing out at our lives as if through a burlap sack.”

Source : Anthony Doerr (2008). “Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

“You never know, when you're going in to work with people if they're gonna be friendly or judgmental, or what have you. There's a ton of insecurities that go into my head, before I start working with someone.”

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

“These statements absolutely do not correspond to reality. The Russian proposals are very simple stop all form of barter arrangements and shift to normal, market relations affecting gas supplies and gas transit.”

“When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1879). “Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford”