Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Drabble

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

John Malkovich

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think

Adolf Hitler

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. I may grow rich by art I am compelled to follow, I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment, but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve

Thomas Jefferson

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Ambrose Bierce

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Marie Corelli

I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

Paulo Coelho

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

Susie Clevenger

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Corita Kent

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

Eddie Bernice Johnson