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I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.