Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Alicia Witt

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

David E. Kelley

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It

W. H. Auden

A word to the wise is enough

Benjamin Franklin

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

Emily Dickinson

You leave home to seek your fortune and, when you get it, you go home and share it with your family.

Anita Baker

The writer is all alone.

V. S. Naipaul

I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country.

Thomas Jefferson

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Anna Paglia

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

Brit Hume