It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

The breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its beauty In the serene night, With the flame that consumes, and gives no pains. ~ 39

John of the Cross

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Irving Babbitt

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Joyce Meyer

You know how it is when you decide to lie and say the check isin the mail, and then you remember it really is? I'm like thatall the time.

Steven Wright

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Jamie Bell

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.

David Mamet

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Rene Russo

Business can be a source of progressive change.

Jerry Greenfield

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Jean Paul Richter

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Julianna Baggott

Voice of one, voice of none.

Italian Proverb

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Gwyneth Paltrow