Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

David Arquette

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

Jim Lehrer

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

Amy Waldman

You have to make peace with life.

Cheryl Ladd

He that dies pays all debts

William Shakespeare

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Les Brown

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children. Even insects play together, as has been described by that excellent observer, P. Huber, who saw ants chasing and pretending to bite each other, like so many puppies.

Charles Darwin, Descent of Man,

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Bruce Lee

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

Dawn French