It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

We have taken beauty and exchanged it for stilted voices.

D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles -- right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.

Abraham Lincoln

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Robert Casey

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

Beverly Cleary

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shirley MacLaine

What is an unconditional state?

Asa Don Brown

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Fernando Pessoa

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Robert Delaunay

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Zig Ziglar