Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Humor is imperative, more important than food. You have a choice when someone dies. You can lie down or get back into life. Do something for someone else.

Doris Roberts

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

P. J. O'Rourke

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

Tina Weymouth

The first truth for special operations is that quality is more important than quantity.

Hugh Shelton

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Francis Bacon

Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.

Robin M. Helm

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon W. Allport

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Eric Alterman

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

Bruce Beresford

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

David Blaine

My first three years of high school, I wasn't that cool.

Jonathan Bennett

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche