The artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Many writers must have realized human fiction is making much more out of the sense that our reality unfailingly lacks.

Jaf Liethers

That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.

Colin Quinn

The ordinary can be like medicine.

Sherman Alexie

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Georges Courteline

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Simone Weil

For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

Brian Mulroney

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

John Heywood

Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a specialprovidence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will benow; if it be not now, yet it will come: thereadiness is all.

William Shakespeare

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

Billy Ray Cyrus

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Audre Lorde

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand