As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

Thomas Carlyle

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Gene Siskel

The dream doesn't lie in victimization or blame it lies in hard work, determination and a good education.

Alphonso Jackson

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Harry S. Truman

~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~

Michelle Horst

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Philip Knight

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.

John Townsend Trowbridge

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Henry Miller

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

William Hazlitt

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Elizabeth Hardwick