Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasures most dear.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

Nastassja Kinski

Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

Emma Goldman

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Gilda Radner

The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk makes me blush. Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens.

David Krumholtz

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Herodotus

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

Peace Pilgrim

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Ram Dass

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mignon McLaughlin

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Mark Twain