An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

Nia Vardalos

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

Mark Kennedy

Scars are just another kind of memory.

M.L. Stedman

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Robert Benchley

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better.

Stephen King

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience

Mark Twain

I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability.

Ann Bancroft

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

David Ives

Glory is the child of peril.

Tobias G. Smollett