When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

Ethan Hawke

Those who have the ability to be grateful are the ones who have the ability to achieve greatness.

Steve Maraboli

When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature.... And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace.

St. Catherine of Genoa

You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.

W. Somerset Maugham

Oh, what a bitter thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

William Shakespeare

I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.

Tracy Chapman

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!

Virgil, Aeneid, The

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

Annette Funicello

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

John Ruskin

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Stephen Leacock

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

Pope John Paul II