I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.

James, you are all the family I have. I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. I owe you everything, and if you cannot believe I have empathy, perhaps you might at least believe I know honor--honor, and debt--

Cassandra Clare

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

Henry David Thoreau

John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!

Andrew Jackson

It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.

Thomas Horder

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

Hafez

So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.

Jane Harman

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

Paula Poundstone

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

George Jean Nathan

Question authority... Then ignore it!

Joseph Barjack

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Deepak Chopra

The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Arnold H. Glasow

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

Nolan Ryan