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“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.”
Source : "Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life". Book by Caroline Moorehead, p. 88, 2003.
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
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“I believe empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.”
Source : Roger Ebert (2010). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011”, p.1500, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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“I'm going to leave The Wanda Sykes Show and try to get her job because $5 million ain't too bad!”
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“Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.”
Source : "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013. 
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“A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'”
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“From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.”
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“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”
