"A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs to understand the past."

“To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.”

“To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated...”

Source : Mick LaSalle (2012). “The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn from Contemporary French Actresses”, p.7, Stanford University Press

“Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.”

Source : Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.58, Princeton University Press

“When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.”

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

“I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.”

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.”

“Well, sir, I ain't a for real cowboy. But I am one helluva stud.”

“You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.”