It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

The most important things in life aren't things.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

Roger Goodell

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a landlord's possessory rights - I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I'm upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I've worked with are pretty great.

Tony Kushner

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.

Peter Singer

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Fortune Cookie

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

Thayer David

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

Albert Einstein

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Terry Eagleton

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.

Major Owens

When I met you everything seemed right But the truth is you fucked on the first night It sank in slow; now I know you're a ho Yo, I shoulda listened when my friends told me so

Eamon