For opportunity is nothing if you don't grab it by both hands.

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don't know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

I've decided that I'm going to collect as many spiders in a jar as I can and then pour them all over you, William Flecter. Seeing as how it's good to face your fears.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favourite writers. It gave one a curious feeling

...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

My films must let every man, woman, and child know that God loves them, that I love them, and that peace and salvation will become a reality only when they all learn to love each other.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

Behind every fortune, there's a crime.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore.