"The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces."

“The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.”

“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”

“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

Source : Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.

“Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.”

“I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.”

“Is a dream reality till you wake up?”

Source : Song: He Loves Me Not, Album: Life in Mono, 2006

“I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.”

“I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.”

Source : "Thomas Mann and Zoey Deutch Talk BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Auditioning without Seeing the Script, Working with Emma Thopmson, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 12, 2013.