"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Character Quotes #Power Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes

“Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.”
“You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.”
“Those who determine not to put self to death will never see the will of God fulfilled in their lives.”
“Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life”, p.301, Vintage
“Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.”
“Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.”
“Regaining favor with your worst enemy is a satisfactory but short lived relief.”
“Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.”

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