If your goal is to be the biggest movie star in the world, a 10-movie contract is gold. It was never my goal. Up until now, I made movies - and I have a nice house, a nice car. I'm fortunate, happy and grateful. Life is good.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

Kevin Costner

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Stephen King

Music should always be a means of bridging gaps and uniting people. The beauty of music is that it can -- and should -- gather a wide variety of concepts in a way that's universal.

Gloria Estefan

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

Parker J. Palmer

Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down!

Henry Rink

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

George Orwell

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

Sally Kirkland

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

Dylan Thomas