Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

Alexandre Dumas

It's as if every conversation with a woman was a test, and men always failed it, because they always lacked the key to the code and so they never quite understood what the conversation was really about.

Orson Scott Card

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.

George Eliot

In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

Mark Twain

In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.

Abraham Lincoln

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

Larry Brown

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Oscar Wilde

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

John Ciardi

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Ivan Illich

Sure it could get rough sometimes, but life wasn't a Hollywood movie. Shit happened. You fought, you screamed, and somehow you worked like hell to get out the other side still intact.

Samantha Young

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway