That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger....

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry.

Lynn Johnston

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class.

Richard Dreyfuss

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Thomas Pynchon

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Benjamin Franklin

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been ;abandoned.

Charles Sumner

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

John Oates

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.

Christopher Hitchens

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

Samuel West