Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. – Abigail Adams
We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams
Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams
I think were the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. Its not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human. – Rainn Wilson
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But its a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, youre not playing yourself. – Ralph Fiennes