Man cannot live without joy, therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas AquinasNothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoI have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz KafkaOur bodies are shaped to bear children and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint AugustineThe trouble is that racial stereotypes unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European extraction were completely accepted and indeed scarcely noted in those days of only forty years ago [the 1930s] (except perhaps by the members of the groups victimized thereby).
Isaac AsimovTo mourn and bewail your ill-fortune when you will gain a tear from those who listen this is worth the trouble.
AeschylusI try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy GarlandI had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.
Will Smith