Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

Jeanette Winterson

The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.

David O. Selznick

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

And it was back in the mid-1980s, and as I point out in a piece, that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then, we had the impression that so much of the excessive, aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

Richard Dooling

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

Jeremy Renner

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

Gaylord Nelson

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Jane Austen

I would rather have a first-class manager running a second-rate business than a second-rate manager running a first-rate business.

Jack E. Reichert

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

Woodrow Wilson

Everyone has a dream.

Rapunzel

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

Walter Savage Landor

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan