Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

David Steinberg

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Jodi Picoult

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Will Rogers

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Amanda Peet

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Ellis Peters

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death.

Sorin Cerin

Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.

Clare Boothe Luce

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

Craig Robinson

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

Fernando Pessoa