It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

What's plan b?' 'We all die now.' 'What's plan c?

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

He himself will go into the drain and take his boy in his own lap. He will clean his dress, clean his clothes, clean his body; and afterward he will say, "My boy, you should walk carefully."

Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect.