"Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it."

“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

“The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The LORD has spoken this word.”

“I've dated men my age, younger than me and older. The only difference is the young ones are quicker at taking out the garbage.”

“The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd.”

Source : "The History of Rome - Volume 4: Part 2" by Theodor Mommsen, translated by W.P.Dickson, 1866.

“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.”

“Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.”

“In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.”

Source : "Roman Coppola Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM and A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 8, 2012.

“When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.”