It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Most of man's problems upon this planet in the long history of the race have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

For this equilibrium now in sight let us trust that mankind as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past will find for itself a new code of ethics common to all made of tolerance of courage and of faith in the Spirit of men.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.

I have been in teen shows for years so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.