The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

Vic Snyder

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Antonin Artaud

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

Charles Caleb Colton

Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood.

Whitley Strieber

I have a little kitchen office at home, where I do all my kids' stuff.

Katey Sagal

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Tyra Banks

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.

Richard Bach

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Koestler

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Corrie Ten Boom

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Peter De Vries