What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children, for how difficult their world is.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.

Phyllis George

I think I'm pretty smart on what I spend my money on. I still don't have a new car, I drive my old car that I've had forever. But I bought a house in downtown Chicago.

Chris O'Donnell

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Thomas Carlyle

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.

Gary Locke

And now, first and foremost, you can never afford to forget for a moment what is the object of our forest policy. That object is not to preserve forests because they beautiful, though that is good in itself; nor because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness, though that, too, is good in itself; but the primary object of our forest policy, as of the land policy of the United States, is the making of prosperous homes. It is part of the traditional policy of home making in our country. Every other consideration comes as secondary. You yourselves have got to keep this practical object before your minds: to remember that a forest which contributes nothing to the wealth, progress, or safety of the country is of no interest to the Government, and should be of little interest to the forester. Your attention must be directed to the preservation of forests, not as an end in itself, but as the means of preserving and increasing the prosperity of the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt, speaking to

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Soren Kierkegaard

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

Etta James

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

Cherrie Moraga

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.

Blaise Pascal

Feudal societies don't create great cinema we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.

Brian Cox

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

George Orwell