One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, What will you have, sir? And I said, A glass of hemlock.

Ernest Hemingway

Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.

Rian Johnson

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Woody Allen

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.

Reggie Jackson

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.

Charles Stanley

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

Robin Wright Penn

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Vladimir Lenin

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

Scott Hamilton

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love,

Dean Koontz