"Everything we "know" from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?"

“In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit.”

“Fools make news, and wise men carry it.”

“We are all of us invented. We are all of us cobbled together from cartilage and dust. Few of us know with certainty the name of our maker. But I do... Bram Stoker.”

Source : Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

“I don't have a lot of time for managing [my businesses], so I put a lot of trust in people I hire to manage my businesses. I can't necessarily attend to [the businesses] while I'm in season. We swap ideas on how we can improve and deliver a better product.”

“Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.”

“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”

“Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.”

“The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.”