I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Sanaa Lathan

Never underestimate someone else's pain.

Jackie Martin

The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

Victor Hugo

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

Victor Hugo

To attempt, to brave, to persist, and persevere, to be faithful to one's self, to wrestle with destiny, to astound the catastrophe by the slight fear which is causes us, now to confront unjust power, again to insult intoxicated victory, to hold firm and withstand -- such is the example which nations need and the light which electrifies them.

Victor Hugo

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

William Penn

What a cruel reflection that a rich country cannot long be a free one.

Thomas Jefferson

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Victor Hugo

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that it's the way one is raised.

Colin Firth

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

Orson Scott Card

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Robert Morgan

It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.

Leonard Cohen