"Always be more than you appear and never appear to be more than you are."

“I have many gay friends who don't support gay marriage either.”

“Don't be an agnostic. Be something.”

“Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.”

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

“The calculus of probabilities, when confined within just limits, ought to interest, in an equal degree, the mathematician, the experimentalist, and the statesman.”

Source : François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.235

“I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.”

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

“I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.”

“Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).”

Source : Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.64, Routledge

“For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.”