Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

Meryl Streep

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Matthew Simpson

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Blaise Pascal

There is a war against the individual.

James Dye

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.

David Selby

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

George Santayana

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

C.S. Lewis

I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.

Kina Grannis

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Alfred Tennyson