Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Trust me: not everyone is on the Adriane Lenox bandwagon. I'm not stupid enough to think that.

All that counts in life is intention.

False thinking and false ideologies, dressed in the most pleasing forms, quietly - almost without our knowing it - seek to reduce our moral defenses and to captivate our minds. They entice with bright promises of security, cradle-to-grave guarantees of many kinds.

Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

You cannot have development in today's world without partnering with the private sector.

Olympics for me is love, peace, united.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

Mothers are all slightly insane.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.

I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.