Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

Thomas Keneally

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Ann Brashares

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

Alan Watts

I feel it respectful to observe and practice new customs, if I am to ever understand what it truly means to be human.

Jacob D. Lochner

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Have a sense of humor about life - you will need it. And be courteous.

Peter Jennings

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.

Richard Le Gallienne

A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures...

Stephen King

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Thomas Fuller

I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

Debra Winger

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Tracey Ullman