"Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you."

“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

Source : "Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 30, p. 68, 1926.

“There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.”

“The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.”

Source : "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

“If one's work environment isn't able to provide individuals with meaning, people will seek out one that does.”

Source : Source: www.hr.com

“I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.”

“I started getting fan notes from people saying, "Oh, keep up the mess-ups," and I'm thinking, "I'm not doing it deliberately. This is just who I am." But people thought it was funny. I guess if you're watching and you see that I could do it, maybe it gives hope that anybody can do it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.”

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

“Sleep, nurse of our life, care's best reposer.”

Source : "To his Mistress for her True Picture". Line 11,