Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Charles Seymour

Well I talk a little about that, but I don't admit that from the beginning I knew we were not meant to be together.

Jodi Picoult

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

Naoto Kan

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Marvin Hamlisch

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.

Simon Newcomb

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking.

Benjamin Franklin

My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

Henny Youngman

We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and liberty than their youth can handle, by indoctrinating them with sinister ideologies and false values, by permitting them, as young children, to indulge themselves in imprudence to superiors and defiance of duly constituted authority, by lack of prudent, swift punishment when the transgressed, by coddling and pampering them when they were children and protecting them from a very dangerous world

Taylor Caldwell, On Growing Up T

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Mark Haddon