It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.

Steve Maraboli

I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.

Ben Hecht

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Carly Fiorina

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Evelyn Underhill

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

Adam Brody

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

Jane Austen

We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.

Source Unknown

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.

Mason Cooley

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

Jack Dee

View your life with KINDSIGHT. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, What was I thinking, breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, What was I learning?

Karen Salmansohn

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Walter Pater

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

Audre Lorde