The actions you take today can propel you into a better position tomorrow.

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness. I need only suggest what kind of sermons are still listened to in the most enlightened countries. There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.

Henry David Thoreau

I have a family.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa --slightly off balance.

Prince Of Wales Charles

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

Paul Ryan

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

Sinclair Lewis

She hated herself more than she could express.

Jane Austen

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Victor Hugo

Advertisements are of great use to the vulgar. First of all, as they are instruments of ambition. A man that is by no means big enough for the Gazette, may easily creep into the advertisements; by which means we often see an apothecary in the same paper of news with a plenipotentiary, or a running footman with an ambassador.

Joseph Addison

The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.

Vic Braden

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Carol Burnett

The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, it's a good idea to turn off the sound.

Anon.

I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.

Sam Rockwell