False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

I found it to be more challenging to be in a huge effects movie, because a lot of the things aren't there.You have to trust the director and react to nothing.

Katie Holmes

The Peking man was a thinking being, standing erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice Age.

Davidson Black

Panem et Circenses translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.

Orson Scott Card

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

George W. Crane

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Denis Diderot

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Simpson

As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.

David Morrell

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Patrick Swayze

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

C.S. Lewis

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

David Elkind