Famous quotes containing the words family and/or systems:
“If you have this enormous talent, its got you by the balls, its a demon. You cant be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasnt that nice a guy.”
—Dustin Hoffman (b. 1937)
“What avails it that you are a Christian, if you are not purer than the heathen, if you deny yourself no more, if you are not more religious? I know of many systems of religion esteemed heathenish whose precepts fill the reader with shame, and provoke him to new endeavors, though it be to the performance of rites merely.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)