There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Fred Brooks

Everything worth having can be carried in your heart.

Spoken by pirate captain Raider

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.

Coretta Scott King

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Plato

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Sinclair Lewis

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Jim Rohn

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

Eugene T. Gendlin

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

Miranda Richardson

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Chandler Massey

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero