"Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh."

“I'm a crusader. I really believe in the First Amendment, and I use it fully, and I pay a price for that.”

“When you're young and you have money, you become the CEO, automatically, of life, of your family.”

Source : "Corey Haim's Life Mirrored Pop Culture" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. March 10, 2010.

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

Source : Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

“Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”

“Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stability of the being God gave us, and seek to live in a myth we have created for ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.”

“Happiness arises as a result of different causes and conditions. If you harm someone out of anger, you may feel some superficial satisfaction, but deep down you know it was wrong. Your confidence will be undermined. However, if you have an altruistic attitude, you’ll feel comfortable and confident in the presence of others.”

“There is not a moral to every story in animal behavior. Sometimes a snake is just a snake, and sometimes snake sex is only about sex in snakes, or sex in egg-laying reptiles. Although a biologist's job in part is to interpret what organisms do in a broader context, that context does not, and should not, need to include a lesson for human beings. This is true regardless of whether the lesson is something we would like to teach, which means that using animals as vehicles for nonsexist thinking is just as out of bounds as using them to keep women barefoot and pregnant.”

“City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de