Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

Sally Kirkland

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

Orison Swett Marden

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Joseph Addison

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

Julius Erving

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Saint Ignatius

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

John Donne

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Woody Allen

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

Peter Agre

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.

Alfred Tennyson

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

Katey Sagal

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

Bill Scott